A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with city bred young lawyer Candice as she sets out on her first visit to her ancestral homeland. She arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the long abandoned camp of the Eualeyai where in 1919 her great grandmother Garibooli was abducted. The twentieth century falls away and Garibooli, renamed Elizabeth by the authorities, takes up the story of Candice's Aboriginal family. In her short lifetime as a teenaged servant then as wife and mother, Garibooli never finds her way back "to the place where the rivers meet". Her children follow with their stories, each revealing the impact of an orphanage home on broken families and the consequences of having dark skin in 1950s Australia. It is in connecting the histories of her scattered ancestors that Candice will find her way home.
Larissa Behrendt
Resolving Indigenous Disputes: Land Conflict And Beyond
$39.95 – Paperback book / Federation Press
This book looks at the way in which dispute resolution processes can be developed to more effectively empower Aboriginal people and assist with the more equitable and satisfactory resolution of disputes between Aborigina... Buy or find out more →
Treaty
$29.95 – Paperback book / Federation Press
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Achieving Social Justice
$29.95 – Paperback book / Federation Press
Larissa Behrendt attacks the chasm which has grown between Indigenous lives and aspirations in Australia, and the psychological terra nullius which continues, despite Mabo, to pervade so much of Australia’s mythology and... Buy or find out more →
Home
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with city bred young lawyer Candice as she sets out on her first visit to her ancestral homeland. She arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the long abandoned cam... Buy or find out more →
Legacy
$24.95 – Paperback book / Univ Queensland Pr
A groundbreaking novel about fathers and daughters, the history we can't change and the future that we can.
Simone Harlowe is a young Indigenous lawyer, straddling two lives and two cultures while studying for her ... Buy or find out more →
