{"id":3561,"date":"2024-05-20T01:36:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T01:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2024-06-17T02:17:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T02:17:47","slug":"the-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2024\/05\/20\/3561\/the-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When his mother dies, Luke\u2019s childhood is severed into a \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019 and a chain of catastrophic events is unleashed that alters the course of his life. Navigating the upheaval of a broken foster system (that serves as a pipeline to poverty and incarceration in \u2018juvie\u2019), <em>The Leaves <\/em>is a meditation on loss, female friendship, and the role of the state. It reveals the cruelty and futility of the youth detention system, and the violence of the law itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinifexpress.com.au\/shop\/p\/9781922964021\">The Leaves<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Jacqueline Rule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Spinifex Press<br \/>\nPrice: $26.95<br \/>\nISBN: 9781922964021<br \/>\nDistributor: Spinifex Press<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spinifexpress.com.au\/\">Spinifex Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Title Showcase is sponsored by the publisher. To feature your title in this section, contact our\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:advertising@booksandpublishing.com.au?subject=%20Request%20information%20on%20Title%20Showcase%20features\">advertising manager<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When his mother dies, Luke\u2019s childhood is severed into a \u2018before\u2019 and \u2018after\u2019 and a chain of catastrophic events is unleashed that alters the course of his life. Navigating the upheaval of a broken foster system (that serves as a pipeline to poverty and incarceration in \u2018juvie\u2019), The Leaves is a meditation on loss, female<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-title-showcase"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}