5/31/2023 0 Comments Tara june winch the yield review![]() ![]() One of these narratives is a long letter, a testimony of sorts, from an early 19th-century missionary who finds his calling among the oppressed Wiradjuri. She presents the legacy of oppression and strife among local indigenous people and European settlers with great nuance.īut it’s when this initial thread intertwines with two other storylines that the novel fully realizes itself. Her portrayal of August’s rediscovery of herself and her ties to her home is moving. She soon discovers that her grandmother and family members are being evicted from their lands because an extraction company has acquired the mineral rights and plans to excavate a vast open-pit tin mine.Įven with a slightly pat ending, this thread of Winch’s narrative is irresistible, as she offers the reader both a tactile and spiritual feel for the forbidding landscape. She is returning after many years for the funeral of her grandfather, Albert “Poppy” Gondiwindi, a revered Wiradjuri (indigenous Australian) elder. It’s a place “where the sun slap the earth with an open palm.” It’s the place she fled as a teenager after the traumatic disappearance of her older sister and protector. This is the small town where August grew up in the care of her grandparents. ![]() In Tara June Winch’s engaging third book, The Yield, a young woman named August Gondiwindi flies back to Australia, rents a car and drives seven hours inland to the aptly named town of Massacre Plains. ![]()
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