Mullumbimby
Author: Lucashenko, Melissa
ISBN: 9780702239199
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 286
Dimensions: 226mm x 154mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Indigenous voices.
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter Ellen, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours, and a looming Native Title war among the local Bundjalung families. When Jo stumbles into love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life.
Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.
ISBN: 9780702239199
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 286
Dimensions: 226mm x 154mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Indigenous voices.
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter Ellen, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours, and a looming Native Title war among the local Bundjalung families. When Jo stumbles into love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life.
Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.
