When David skips out and leaves the boys on the farm, Clancy, Jonah and Samson each develop their own solitary routines to minimise any time spent together. He refuses to believe that the Tasmanian Tiger is truly extinct and that they hold the key to the mystery surrounding River Snow Fox’s disappearance. Their arrival is met with awkwardness and emotional distance David’s father Clancy is a slightly unstable old man living under the heavy guilt of his daughter’s disappearance from so many years before.

It is a story of isolation, geographically speaking, as well as the emotional distance of family members who fail to connect with one another.Īfter his wife walks out on him, David packs himself and his twin boys, Jonah and Samson, in the car and takes them from Queensland to the depths of Tasmania to his father’s remote property. It is a story set deep within the Tasmanian wilderness with strong connections to the land and the forces of nature. This beautifully atmospheric and melancholy story tells the story of a family weighed down by the past, unable to see that history is repeating in front of their very eyes. When Sing Fox to Me by Sarah Kanake appeared in the letter box one day, I held it in my hand and had a funny sense that is was going to be a very, very interesting read. While Samson – who has Down syndrome – finds mystery and delight all around, Jonah develops a dark obsession as persistent as Clancy’s desire to bring River home. The resentful, brooding Jonah and thoughtful, inquisitive Samson become entranced, in different ways, with the

He’s convinced that she was taken by a Tasmanian tiger pack. Clancy Fox is a beat-up old man obsessed with finding his long-missing daughter, River. In 1986, fourteen-year-old twins Samson and Jonah travel from the Sunshine Coast to the wild backcountry of Tasmania to live on a mountain with a granddad they’ve never met. This time, he saw how the trees stretched up, and how the late afternoon light danced between the trunks like runaway waterfalls, and how the narrow, almost hidden dirt road waited for them.

He squeezed his eyes shut and opened then again. “The mountain loomed over him in a formless green haze.