Being somewhat worldly means that Boyt is all too conscious of the "Freud connection". Journalists only used to want to interview her because they were obsessed with her father. When her last book came out one woman turned up with a list of 14 similarities between Boyt's father and the fathers in her novels.

So you're on vacation in Australia, drinking a Fosters, chasing dingos away from your babies and arguing about what things are and are not knives. You sign up to go on a scuba tour of the Great Barrier Reef. After a quick tutorial on what you can and cannot touch that you didn't even understand (they are speaking Australian after all), you're down in the ocean exploring the reef.

She is extremely bothered by the arm edema and she "nibbles" at the bulging. For lack of better technical description, she literally looks like she has two giant water balloons coming from the top of her shoulder and extending to the floor. So the feet and actual arm itself is n