2.29 Larissa Behrendt, Home: A Novel (2004)

[emma_in_dream]

2.29 Larissa Behrendt, Home: A Novel (2004)

Here's another from Anita Heiss' list of her top 100 (or rather 99) Indigenous books - http://anitaheissblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/anitas-bbc-black-book-choice-reading.html

I really really liked this novel. It begins in 1995 with a young, Indigenous lawyer visiting the lands from which her grandmother was taken. It then flashes back in time to 1918 when she was taken as part of the Stolen Generation and has different chapters on the lives of her descendants.

Not only is it an interesting conceit but it is very well written. There's a great line about her relationship with her white, French boyfriend - there is 'nothing between us but skin'.

It's the winner of the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous writers.

Comments

[adelheid]

Want (badly) to find both "Home" and "Legacy". Have read the first few chapters of "Home" and had more of a positive impact on my thinking than the entirely of racefail, mammothfail and multiple other internet issues.

[emma_in_dream]

My local council library had it - also a few of her non fiction works.

How I love libraries - always think it is the best use I get out of my taxes.