![]() ![]() She’ll pay her respects, tolerate her mother’s jibes and then return to the city, where she can nurse her broken heart and keep a low profile. Kerry thinks her visit to see her dying grandfather is going to be a fleeting one. The story is largely told through the eyes of 30-something Kerry Salter, who arrives back home - the fictional NSW town of Durrongo - on the back of a stolen Harley Davison motorbike carrying a backpack stuffed with $30,000 cash, the proceeds of a botched armed robbery, which resulted in the imprisonment of her lesbian lover, Allie, who has now broken off their relationship. Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip is a brash, gritty and hard-hitting novel about an indigenous (“blackfella”) family, deeply traumatised by past events, which is now grappling with a new challenge: saving their beloved river and Ava’s island from the local mayor’s plans to build a new prison on it. Fiction – Kindle edition University of Queensland Press 303 pages 2018. ![]()
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