{"product_id":"9780733649264","title":"Dirt Poor Islanders: Shortlisted for the 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award","description":"Author: Winnie Dunn\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780733649264\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Mar 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 304 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST YOUNG NOVELISTS AWARD 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE KATHLEEN MITCHELL AWARD 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003etogether. We lived with generations upon generations stacked in fibro houses together. We became half-White together. We stayed poor together. Together. Together. Together.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For Meadow Reed, a half-Tongan, half-White girl, the world is bigger than the togetherness she has grown up in. Finding her way means pushing against the constraints of tradition, family and self until she becomes whole in her own right. Meadow is going to see that being a dirt poor Islander girl is more beautiful than she can even begin to imagine.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDirt Poor Islanders \u003c\/i\u003eis a potent, mesmerising novel that opens our eyes to the brutal fractures navigated when growing up between two cultures and the importance of understanding all the many pieces of yourself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'a loving, yet challenging, portrait of the Tongan-Australian community . . . this is truly groundbreaking fiction' \u003cb\u003eMELISSA LUCASHENKO, Miles Franklin winning author of \u003ci\u003eToo Much Lip\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'ferocious and tender . . . no one is spared and so much is revealed, including the complexity and power of being Tongan.' \u003cb\u003eSHANKARI CHANDRAN, Miles Franklin winning author of \u003ci\u003eChai Time at Cinnamon Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'A fresh and vital new voice. The language dances on the page and creates vibrant characters alive and dripping with life.'\u003cb\u003e FAVEL PARRETT, Miles Franklin shortlisted author of \u003ci\u003ePast the Shallows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'I couldn't put it down. I laughed and I cried and I could smell the food and picture the places. Groundbreaking. Powerful. Brilliant. Masterpiece.' \u003cb\u003eSELA AHOSIVI-ATIOLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'a perceptive, provocative and personal exploration of growing up in a multicultural family . . . \u003ci\u003eDirt Poor Islanders\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive piece of autobiographic fiction' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'vibrant . . . Dunn is a lively writer with a laid back sense of humour and a sharp eye for detail. \u003ci\u003eDirt Poor Islanders\u003c\/i\u003e blends cultural collision and coming of age, and expands a field of Australian fiction that went mainstream with Christos Tsiolkas' \u003ci\u003eLoaded\u003c\/i\u003e.' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 'In a beautiful warts-and-all way, Dunn shines a light on her Tongan-Australian upbringing' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46465988198558,"sku":"ADS-9780733649264","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780733649264.jpg?v=1770010999","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780733649264","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}