Zululand Observer - Weekender

Title: The Insomnia Museum

Author: Laurie Canciani

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ANNA lives in a at with dad. He is a hoarder, and together they have spent the last 12 years constructi­ng the Insomnia Museum, a labyrinth built from dead TVs, old cuckoo clocks, stacks of newspapers and other junk dad has found.

Anna is 17. She can’t remember ever having seen outside the

at, but noises penetrate her isolated world: dogs bark in the walls, music plays in the

oor, and a ship sails through the canyons between the tower blocks.

Then, one day, dad falls asleep and won’t wake up, and Anna must leave the museum and try to survive in a place that turns out to be stranger and more dangerous than she could have imagined.

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