The Build-Up SeasonFrom the author of CBCA shortlisted Yellow comes a powerful exploration of family and identity set against the humid build up to the wet season in Darwin. He's back. The monster. It's the middle of the night and I'm awake, because even though I'm seventeen I still haven't outgrown the childhood monster that haunts you in the dark. I haven't outgrown it, because when I was a child, the monster was real. He was my father. Seventeen year old Iliad Piper