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Mullumbimby

Author: Melissa Lucashenko  

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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.

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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.

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A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare.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.

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Awards

Short-listed for Queensland Literary Awards: Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year 2013

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Critic Reviews

'Cheeky, thoughtful, real - a powerful story about country and belonging.' - Kate Grenville

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About the Author

Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Killing Darcy won the Royal Blind Society Award and was shortlisted for an Aurealis award. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Her latest book is Edenglassie.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Published
27th February 2013
Pages
286
ISBN
9780702239199

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CUSTOMER REVIEWS

21 Jul, 2022
I quite liked this book. the storytelling offered me a different way to look at life. I liked how it covered aboriginal issues from a personal point of view.
I liked how it gave a different way of handling problems and facing disappointments .I liked how it looked at places that are familiar from a totally different perspective. and I liked the dictionary at the end.
the only thing i didint like was the swearing ... but thats just me
Well done Melissa
By Donna
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