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Purple Threads
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Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.
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Winner of the David Unaipon Award, an engaging, moving and often funny yarn about growing up in the home of two Aunties running a sheep farm in rural Gundagai.
Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and her nights dozing by the fire, listening to the big women yarn about life over endless cups of tea.
It is a life of freedom, protection and love. But as Sunny grows she must face the challenge of being seen as different, and of having a mother whose visits are as unpredictable as the rain.
Based on Jeanine Leane's own childhood, these funny, endearing and thought-provoking stories offer a snapshot of a unique Australian upbringing.
Purple Threads by Jeanine Leane and Evelyn Araluen.
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Purple Threads is lauded for its exploration of past and present interconnectedness, providing insight into diversity and kinship. Reviewers find it uplifting, highlighting triumph in the face of adversity, with compelling characters and narratives that leave lasting impressions.
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ISBN: 9780702266027
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 May 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Edition: 2nd ed.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 162g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from south-west New South Wales. Her first volume of poetry, Dark Secrets After Dreaming, won the Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Poetry, and her first novel, Purple Threads, won the David Unaipon Award. She has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness and creative non-fiction. Jeanine was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, and has won the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Prize for Poetry twice.
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