Kerry just hopes they can come together in time to preserve Granny Ava’s legacy and save their ancestral land. Surrounded by the ghosts of their Elders and the memories of their ancestors, the Salters are driven by the deep need to make peace with their past while scrabbling to make sense of their present. On top of that, love may have found Kerry again when a good-looking white fella appears out of nowhere with eyes only for her.Īs the fight mounts to stop the development, old wounds open. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of latching on to people-not to mention her chaotic family and the threat of a proposal to develop a prison on Granny Ava’s Island, the family’s spiritual home. Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, across the border. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews.

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia’s Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier.

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Too much lip by melissa lucashenko