Hector Mackenzie: the long cloud
We are delighted to host the launch of Hector Mackenzie's 'the long cloud'.
Xander is ageing out. A former high school jock turned model, he's spent a decade in London riding a carousel of validation and success. Now the ride is slowing down. When his much-more-successful actor girlfriend, Tessa K, buys him a plane ticket home to New Zealand for the first time in ten years, Xander returns as a stranger. The family farm is for sale. His mother is overbearing. His high school ex wants to reconnect. And his life is unravelling. Then he meets someone younger, someone vibrant and unburdened, who makes him fall back in love with the small town he fled. But is she the cure for his problems or just another symptom of how empty his life has become?
In 'the long cloud', newcomer Hector Mackenzie captures the anxious rhythm of life in the 20s – a tender, often funny meditation on masculinity, beauty, and mortality that proves you might be able to go home, but you can never truly go back.
Free, but bookings are essential.
Xander is ageing out. A former high school jock turned model, he's spent a decade in London riding a carousel of validation and success. Now the ride is slowing down. When his much-more-successful actor girlfriend, Tessa K, buys him a plane ticket home to New Zealand for the first time in ten years, Xander returns as a stranger. The family farm is for sale. His mother is overbearing. His high school ex wants to reconnect. And his life is unravelling. Then he meets someone younger, someone vibrant and unburdened, who makes him fall back in love with the small town he fled. But is she the cure for his problems or just another symptom of how empty his life has become?
In 'the long cloud', newcomer Hector Mackenzie captures the anxious rhythm of life in the 20s – a tender, often funny meditation on masculinity, beauty, and mortality that proves you might be able to go home, but you can never truly go back.
Free, but bookings are essential.
Thursday 17 September 2026 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (UTC+10)
Location
Readings Carlton
309 Lygon Street, Carlton Victoria 3053
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Hector Mackenzie: the long cloud
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