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Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver -- who was not drunk or high -- made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew off the road. One passenger died on impact. Others were flung from the car. Lech walked away uninjured. In the aftermath, two more died in hospital and one was left disabled, in an incident that convulsed their rural community. Crippled by guilt, Lech turned to social media, cultivating a persona as the ultimate 'grateful survivor'. Over time, he spiralled into risk-taking and depression. His public bravado fell away as he tried to accept how an accident -- one wretched error of youth and inexperience -- had changed the trajectory of so many lives. How do we grieve in an age of social media? How does tragedy shape a community? And how does a boy on the cusp of manhood develop a sense of self when his world has exploded? This stunning memoir pulls no punches. It marks Lech Blaine as a writer to watch.… (més)
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I read Lech Blaine’s Quarterly Essay, Top Blokes in one sitting. So, I was attracted to Car Crash because I wanted to spend more time with him. After the car crash, which was riveting, I put the book down for a few days. Not sure why? I think it felt complete. I didn’t want more. But when I returned, I found a quiet, brutally honest voice that suddenly struck me as uniquely Australian. By this I mean real; intelligently observant, self-deprecating, loaded with doubt and ready to laugh.

I planted the boot upside-down on my head and blew the residue from the bong hit towards the starlit sky.
‘What do we think of Blainey? He’s all right!’
This was the bleak paradox of fame: my popularity and loneliness reached a peak at the same moment.
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Lech Blaine was just seventeen when he was in a crash that killed his best friends and changed his life. On an evening in 2009, seven teenage boys piled into a car to go to a party. They never arrived. The driver -- who was not drunk or high -- made a routine error and then overcorrected. The vehicle flew off the road. One passenger died on impact. Others were flung from the car. Lech walked away uninjured. In the aftermath, two more died in hospital and one was left disabled, in an incident that convulsed their rural community. Crippled by guilt, Lech turned to social media, cultivating a persona as the ultimate 'grateful survivor'. Over time, he spiralled into risk-taking and depression. His public bravado fell away as he tried to accept how an accident -- one wretched error of youth and inexperience -- had changed the trajectory of so many lives. How do we grieve in an age of social media? How does tragedy shape a community? And how does a boy on the cusp of manhood develop a sense of self when his world has exploded? This stunning memoir pulls no punches. It marks Lech Blaine as a writer to watch.

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