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Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Powell, Dani, author.

Contributor:

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction.

Deserts--Australia--Fiction.

Deserts.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Belonging (Social psychology).

Australia.

Aboriginal Australians--Fiction.

Aboriginal Australians.

Automobile travel--Fiction.

Automobile travel.

Belonging (Social psychology)--Fiction.

Australia--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

179 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia : University of Western Australia Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

When Amber returns to her home in the Australian desert one year after her brother's death, her hope is to move on from her grief, to start again. Invited to do some work in a remote Aboriginal community, she relishes the opportunity to return to country she loves so deeply. She hadn't realised her friend Andrew had a reason to ask her to come back. She begins a three-day road trip on unsealed roads that link a constellation of Aboriginal communities. From the outset, it is as if she has been picked up willy willy on a windless day, and must be carried to the end of it -until the wind decides to drop. During this adventure, her composure is undone by a series of encounters, observations, the country itself, and she learns that grief takes its own time.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781760801380

1760801380

OCLC:

1153433944

Publisher Number:

99984969305