After reading, Too Much Lip I was eager to read more literature from Indigenous authors of Australia. I am always looking to expand my perspective and understanding outside of the U.S. experience. Books about languages, the power and resistance they hold and the importance of teaching and preservation, especially Indigenous ones, is a personal interest of mine. I know this one is going to be an impact full read for me. QOTD: What Indigenous book do you recommend? Thanks to @harpervia @tlcbooktours for the gifted copy. 🏞SYNOPSIS🏞 Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. 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. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. #theyield #tarajunewinch #harpervia #tlcbooktours #tlcdiversity #booktour #bookfeature #BIPOCbookstagram #Indigenousbooks #Australia #books #Wiradjuri #ownvoices #diversereads #bookphotos #booksoutside #gifted #bookish #bookstagram #paperback #bookfeature #bookworm #reading #bibliophile #IndigenousFiction #TBR #bookrecommendation #bookdragon (at Middle Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQKCnUVr1If/?utm_medium=tumblr
