This is a novel perfectly cast for modern times as well as celebrating the physical beauty of the country and its deep historical and spiritual meaning. Lucashenko’s compassion towards the feisty Jo shines on every page and Jo is a woman it’s impossible not to like. “Apart from the story, there are many things to enjoy about this novel the larrikin humour and the wonderful experience of being immersed in the Australian/ Bundjalung language. Lucashenko’s work is a powerful response to the entrenched racism that still shapes Australian culture to the public and official turning away from the brutalities and genocide on which this. “Mullumbimby is a modern tale of the clash between cultures, of the importance of belonging, and surprisingly, of the pitfalls of making assumptions about other people. Mullumbimby is all that and more.”ĭaniel Browning, Books & Arts Daily, Radio National, February 2013 Ms Wright went further and told her that the unwritten manuscript should be nothing less than a hymn to the ancestors. Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.“It was Miles Franklin Award-winning writer Alexis Wright who told Lucashenko it was high time that she wrote another novel.
When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life. In Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby she weaves a complex and delicate web of meaning, with big ideas expressed in minutely constructed language.
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What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. Mullumbimby - Ebook written by Melissa Lucashenko. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia’s most admired Indigenous voices.
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