Swallow the Air

Authors: 

Winch, Tara June

'Taken together these pieces tell the brutal story of 15-year-old May Gibson, an Aboriginal girl from New South Wales who, after her mother commits suicide, is taken in by her aunty and finds herself swamped by feckless violence. When May's brother disappears into his own hell, she begins wandering into the world to find herself and her father, searching from Waterloo and Redfern's Block, to Lake Cowal and the Lachlan River in central NSW, and a mission in Eubalong.' Source: http://www.smh.com.au (Sighted 23/12/09)