Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko
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, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds 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.
Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. She has been publishing books with UQP since 1997, with her first novel, Steam Pigs, winning the Dobbie Literary Award and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Hard Yards (1999) was shortlisted for the Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and Mullumbimby (2013) won the Queensland Literary Award and was longlisted for the Stella Prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Kibble Literary Award. She has also written two novels for teenagers, Killing Darcy (UQP, 1998) and Too Flash (IAD Press, 2002). In 2013 Melissa won the inaugural long-form Walkley Award for her Griffith REVIEW essay 'Sinking Below Sight: Down and Out in Brisbane and Logan'.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780702239199 |
| ISBN 10 | 0702239194 |
| Title | Mullumbimby |
| Author | Melissa Lucashenko |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Queensland Press |
| Year published | 2013-02-27 |
| Number of pages | 286 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Queensland Literary Awards: Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year 2013 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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