{"product_id":"debesa-by-dr-cindy-solonec-9781925936001","title":"Debesa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'I listened to my family's narratives and my ancestors began to emerge in an almost life-like way.'\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e- Cindy Solonec\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary and heartfelt story chronicles the lives of the Rodriguez family of Debesa Station in the West Kimberley; their livelihood through difficult times, love of family, place and culture, and the challenges of day-to-day living on a small sheep station amid huge pastoral properties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning four generations from the 1880s when the author's maternal great-grandfather, Indian deckhand Jimmy Casim, met and lived with Nigena woman Lucy Muninga on Yeeda Station near Derby, \u003cem\u003eDebesa\u003c\/em\u003e centres on the unlikely partnership of Cindy's parents: Frank Rodriguez, once a Benedictine novice monk from Spain, and Katie Fraser, who had been a novitiate in a very different sort of abbey—a convent for 'black' women at Beagle Bay Mission, 130 kilometres north of Broome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether, Frank and Katie Rodriguez established Debesa, where Cindy and her three siblings grew up with the rich cultural heritage of their Spanish, Nigena, and English ancestors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDebesa\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping social history of one family's struggles and triumphs set against the backdrop of the beauty of the West Kimberley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46804451655916,"sku":"9781925936001","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19685343482873.jpg?v=1757416550","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/debesa-by-dr-cindy-solonec-9781925936001","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}