Benang by Kim Scott

Benang

From the Heart

by Kim Scott

Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000, ISBN 1863682406, paperback

Near Fine Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self.  As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather’s enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the ‘first whiteman born’, he wants to be a failure.  But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success?  And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told?