![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother Pretty Mary thinks of Kerry as the “Great Abandoner” for her move away from home and her infrequent visits her brother Ken is an angry, abusive alcoholic her nephew Donny is troubled and withdrawn and her only sister Donna has been missing since Kerry was fourteen. Not only is her grandfather dying of cancer, relationships within her family are fraught. Although she is fleeing the heartbreak of a broken relationship with her newly-imprisoned girlfriend back in Brisbane and dodging several warrants for her own arrest, she is nevertheless reluctant to proceed to her destination: her dilapidated family home just outside of the small town of Durrongo. We meet Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman, as she sits on her Harley, idling at an empty intersection. ![]() Though these crimes are assigned to the past, their violent legacies – poverty, addiction, abuse, discrimination – still plague the Bundjalung Nation, an Aboriginal community whose ancestral homelands lie along the northern coast of New South Wales, Australia.īut this is not a story of suffering. Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Too Much Liptells the story of stolen land and stolen children. ![]()
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