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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100063032546
ISBN-139780063032545
eBay Product ID (ePID)3050033991
Product Key Features
Book TitleToo Much Lip : a Novel
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicCultural Heritage, Literary
Publication Year2021
GenreFiction
AuthorMelissa Lucashenko
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-027629
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsMelissa Lucashenko is one of Australia's most prolific contemporary writers, producing funny and gritty realist novels. The Miles Franklin award-winning Too Much Lip...is no exception.
Dewey Decimal823.92
SynopsisA 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. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. 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. Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, across the border. 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. 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. As the fight mounts to stop the development, old wounds open. 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. Kerry just hopes they can come together in time to preserve Granny Ava's legacy and save their ancestral land.