An awestruck narrator of her mother’s and her aunts’ legendary trek through the bush, Pilkington reveres both her family’s history and her culture’s history, and composed this book as an ode to both. Outraged by the stolen past, present, and future of her people, Pilkington composes a narrative in which themes of desperation and desolation, racism and colonialism, and the importance of family, culture, and identity combine to demonstrate the resilience of hope and the empowerment that can come with reclaiming one’s identity through storytelling. Pilkington contrasts her mother’s story with stories of early but equally devastating Aboriginal encounters with the white settlers who would go on to decimate Aboriginal populations and culture. The author of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence and the daughter of Molly, the half-caste girl whose incredible journey forms the heart and soul of the narrative.
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