Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko Paperback Book

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A sharply humorous tale of romantic love and cultural warfare.

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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.

Author Biography

Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie 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. Melissa's sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance. Her latest book is Edenglassie.

Review

'Cheeky, thoughtful, real - a powerful novel about country and belonging.' - Kate Grenville'A modern tale of the clash between cultures, of the importance of belonging, and of the pitfalls of making assumptions about other people and their background.' - Books+Publishing'... a wonderfully light and deft novel ...' - Caroline Baum'I can say with hand on heart that Melissa Lucashenko is one of my favourite living Australian writers ... [Mullumbimby] is a wonderful, beautifully rendered, mature piece of work, riven with wisdom and empathy and love and the whole glorious and messy phantasmagoria that is family life ... Mullumbimby is to my mind Melissa's finest work. It's a book of big ideas and big heart. It is technically brilliant. Its tone and rhythm are seamless ... And it has something new. Humour. Not just any humour. Absolute laugh out loud humour.' - Matthew Condon 'There is a lot going on around the edges of this novel that gives it depth and richness ... [an] engaging and often illuminating novel.' - The Advertiser'The gift of this novel is that it looks beyond the recognisable and takes us on to wonder. That is something to savour.' - Newtown Review of Books'Place is key here, and it is beautifully realised ... a warm comedy of rural and race matters.' - The Sunday Age/The Sun-Herald'Told with a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.' - Gleebooks Gleaner'Depicting life as equal parts cheerful and heartbreaking, mundane and back-breakingly hard ... each [reader] will take something different away from it.' - Readings Monthly'This novel explores big picture contemporary issues [and] also depicts the fragility of the culture.' - ANZ LitLovers LitBlog

Details ISBN0702265713 Author Melissa Lucashenko Publisher University of Queensland Press Format Paperback Pages 296 ISBN-13 9780702265716 Imprint University of Queensland Press Place of Publication St Lucia Country of Publication Australia Year 2023 Publication Date 2023-09-12 AU Release Date 2023-09-12 NZ Release Date 2023-10-03 Audience General DEWEY 823.3 Edition Description 2nd ed. Edition 2nd We've got this

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