I am adopted, and a couple of years ago I set out to discover my "roots". And I also have a darker connection with the actual places and real peoples this book is about. The people I know are from tribal groups a little further south than those depicted in "Mullumbimby" but I can tell the dialogue is tape recorder accurate in both language and the (sometimes banal) topics of conversation (a lot more on "language" later). I have worked in the Indigenous health and Family support sector for over a decade so I know first hand just how accurate the depictions of life are in this book. I have a lot of personal baggage I bring to reading this so my rating for the book says more about me than the book's considerable merit. Sometimes the closer you are to something, the larger the differences seem. "Mullumbimby" is certainly a cleverly written authentic account of contemporary indigenous life and I really wanted to like it more. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.I found this one of the most challenging books I have read in a long while. 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. Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land. 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. 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.
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