It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. The young mother keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way. In Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013 Winner of the Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction 2015 Winner of ABIA Literary Fiction of the Year Award 2015 This is contemporary fiction at its finest.
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