num_pages: 317
description: A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with a young, city-based lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country. Candice arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her grandmother Garibooli was abducted. As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice's Aboriginal family, the twentieth century falls away.Garibooli, renamed Elizabeth, is sent to work as a housemaid, but marriage soon offers escape from the terror of the master's night-time visits. Her displacement carries into the lives of her seven children - their stories witness to the impact of orphanage life and the consequences of having a dark skin in post-war Australia. Vividly rekindled, the lives of her family point the direction home for Candice.Home is a powerful and intelligent first novel from an author who understands both the capacity of language to suppress and the restorative potency of stories that bridge past and present.
language: English
title: Home
titlecomplete: Home (Black Australian Writing)
genres: Historical, Audiobook, Post Colonial, Australia, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Race, Contemporary
ratings_count: 368
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: David Unaipon Award for Unpublished Indigenous Writing, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book in South East Asia and Pacific
publisher: University of Queensland Press