Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Adults
A shimmering vision of the legacy of colonialism in Australia, and the reasons for optimism in hoping for greater justice and autonomy for its Indigenous peoples. Kirkus Reviews, An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose words explode from the page (The Monthly), In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ancestors. A crazed visionary looks to donkeys to solve the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the Aboriginal people. His wife, seeking solace from his madness, follows the dance of butterflies and scours the internet to find out how her Aboriginal/Chinese family could be repatriated to China. One of their sons, named Aboriginal Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk, wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming white and powerful., Praiseworthy is an epic which pushes allegory and
