5/31/2023 0 Comments Mullumbimby lucashenko![]() ![]() This has been in company with her girlfriend who is portrayed as a rather incompetent thief though Kerry has a bag of liberated money with her on her beloved Harley-Davidson softail bike. ![]() It certainly gets quite crowded and like ‘Mullumbimby’ can be initially a little hard to grasp through the opening with skinny Kerry Salter escaping to her home base essentially on the run from criminal activity in and around Logan and Trinder Park. The story line, however, is very different. Once again, the landscape is important as the backstop for indigenous life and memory with all sorts of past and current traditional meanings. ![]() However, the exact location is fictional fuzzy with the gloriously named Durrongo standing in for a typical local town. The location is roughly similar with regular mentions of what seems like the Brunswick river, Bruns Heads, the Brighton beaches, Byron Bay etc. Certainly, this book has been very well received (see the BCC Lib holding above) having been awarded the 2019 Miles Franklin award, the Stella prize and on the shortlists for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards. I probably expected something similar this time but got a lot, lot more. I very much enjoyed Melissa Lucashenko’s ‘Mullumbimby’ as a gentle reflection on life in and around that town’s vicinity tied in with the beauties of the landscape, its very varied denizens and her Bandjalung inheritance from her mother. ![]()
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