![]() ![]() ![]() But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. 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 all she tried to leave behind. The Yield won the Miles Franklin award when it was published in. He finds the words on the wind.Īugust Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. This prize-winning novel combines history and current crises with a dictionary of the Wiradjuri language. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. University of Kent MA student Elizabeth Fraser reviews the novel’s themes and potency. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. The Yield.is a poignant story of personal and cultural reclamation and survival. The Indigenous Literature Reading Group met on 28th May 2021 to discuss Tara June Winch’s The Yield (Penguin, 2019). Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. Tara June Winch Publisher: Penguin Random House ![]()
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