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Jessica Au is an Australian editor and bookseller, and author of the novels Cargo and Cold Enough for Snow.

Au won the inaugural Novel prize in 2020, the 2023 Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction and the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction.

She is based in Melbourne and has worked as deputy editor at the quarterly journal Meanjin and as a fact-checker for Aeon magazine. ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 18,607 ratings · 3,091 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Enough for Snow 3.68 avg rating — 18,482 ratings — published 2022 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cargo 3.53 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kill Your Darlings, July 2015 by Brigid Mullane (Editor), Gillian Terzis (Contributor), Gerard Elson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“we were all essentially nothing, just series of sensations and desires, none of it lasting.”
― Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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“Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, and understanding would not lessen any pain. The best we could do in this life was to pass through it, like smoke through the branches, suffering, until we either reached a state of nothingness, or else suffered elsewhere.”
― Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

tags: letting-go, life, suffering

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“I had one vague, exhausted thought that perhaps it was all right not to understand all things, but simply to see and hold them.”
― Jessica Au, Cold Enough for Snow

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