The Yield: Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award

The Yield is the winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award and has also been honoured with the Book of the Year, People's Choice, and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards.

"Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually."

Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind.

August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends, she endeavours to save their land—a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, and the secrets of the river.

Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is also a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling, and identity.