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Jo Vraca is a fiction writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Born in a small Sicily village to a seamstress and a farmer, she grew up in Australia after her family immigrated in 1971.

Jo wrote her first book when she was 12, before computers. She burned it without reading a word of the manuscript. After a decade as a music and entertainment journalist, Jo returned to her fiction roots and had a short story published in the anthology "Behind the Front Fence" through The Five Mile Press. In 2014 she published her first collection of short stories, Girls, and in 2015, her first novel, Floating Upstream, a coming-of-age tale set in 1970s rural Australia.

Jo likes to think of herself as a born liar, with writing the most likely outlet for her sto ...more

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	Floating Upstream 3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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
	Girls. 3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2014 — 6 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
	What Lies in Evidence 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 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
	The Lucky 13 Interviews with Writers: The Answers to 13 Burning Questions about Writing by Traditional and Indie Authors by Jo Vraca (Goodreads Author), Virtual Voice (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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
	Simonne—A Passion for Life: A Holocaust Survivor’s Tale by Simonne Levi-Jameson, Jo Vraca (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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Book review: the Neopolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante

It can be difficult for a book nerd like me to describe what makes a book great. For some of us, action is not what it takes. Characters, locations, maybe incidents are all I need. And nobody in my memory has done this better than Italian author Elena Ferrante in her Neapolitan Quartet, starting with My Brilliant Friend.

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The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx

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On Beauty

by Zadie Smith

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Jo Vraca said: " Not sure what i expected

Well written characters and a melancholy storyline are what I have come to expect from Zadie Smith, but the writing wasn't the standard of her follow up books. ...more "

Nov 21, 2018 05:31AM · see review