{"product_id":"becoming-kirrali-lewis-by-jane-harrison-9781922142801","title":"Becoming Kirrali Lewis","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a pair of ornate wrought-iron gates was one of the oldest universities in the country. Our paths had just intersected. It was 1985 and I, little black duck, was about to embark on a law degree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, \u003cem\u003eBecoming Kirrali Lewis\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the journey of a young Aboriginal teenager as she leaves her hometown in rural Victoria to take on a law degree in Melbourne in 1985. Adopted at birth by a white family, Kirrali doesn't question her cultural roots until a series of life-changing events force her to face up to her true identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer decision to search for her biological parents sparks off a political awakening that no-one sees coming, least of all Kirrali herself, as she discovers her mother is white and her father is a radical black activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNarrative flashbacks to the 1960s, where Kirrali's biological mother, Cherie, is rebelling against her parent's strict conservatism, sees her fall into a clandestine relationship with an Aboriginal man. Unmarried and pregnant, Cherie's traumatic story of an unforgiving Australian society gives meaning to Kirrali's own rites of passage nearly twenty years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe generational threads of human experience are the very things that will complete her. If only she can let go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRead this lovely post on Alpha Reader. Reviewed in The Sydney Morning Herald and Subversive Reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46798437286124,"sku":"9781922142801","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9839133482872.jpg?v=1757195817","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/becoming-kirrali-lewis-by-jane-harrison-9781922142801","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}