![]() ![]() As journalists Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald recently said in their review of the book on Shameless podcast, at first your ‘ eyeballs’ may not do it justice. Told from the perspectives of three characters Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi, his granddaughter August, and nineteenth-century missionary Reverend Greenleaf, the unique structure of this novel requires concentration at first. A forewarning: persist and your patience will be rewarded. Wiradjuri author Tara June Winch delivers a profound, heart-wrenching story of a people dispossessed in her acclaimed novel The Yield. We don’t have to be giyal-dhuray anymore, we don’t have to pass that down anymore.” The old ones, the young ones too, are ready to heal. We’ve been singing our pain into a solid thing. See, pain travels through our family tree like a songline. It’s become part of the dictionary we think we should carry. “ ashamed, have shame –giyal-dhuray I’m done with this word. We rate this 4/5 but note: readerly patience is required. ![]()
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