Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko

Mullumbimby by Melissa LucashenkoWhen 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, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbors, and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title

by sheer force of numbers

making him a prisoner in his own realm

legends and instinct

the isolation of the pandemic

Robert Kenny challenges many orthodoxies in this profound reconsideration of how indigenous people and Europeans thought about each other

I do a snap kick of the ball

and calling institutional prejudice to account

Ian has declared war on Friday and she is thinking of leaving

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A fantasy of epic scope

swim with turtles

Mel loves it here-the beautiful landscapes and wildlife make it easy to forget her real-world troubles