![]() ![]() Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with the memories of life in poverty before her mother's incarceration, her hometown's racism against her people, and the mysterious disappearance of her sister when they were kids that changed August's life forever. August Gondiwindi has been living in Europe for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people, the indigenous Wiradjuri tribe, and everything that was ever remembered by the ancestors. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, in the fictional Australian town of Massacre Plains. "Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, ![]() The yield : a novel / Tara June Winch Book Bib IDÄ«ook, Online - Google Books ![]()
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