Too Much Lip A Novel
Too Much Lip A Novel by Melissa Lucashenko is a reprint edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers in 2021, featuring 336 pages in English. This gritty and darkly humorous novel follows Kerry Salter, a queer, First Nations Australian woman, as she returns to her hometown to confront her family and protect their ancestral land. With her Pop on his deathbed and her own freedom at stake, Kerry embarks on a journey filled with familial chaos and the looming threat of a prison development on sacred ground.
Readers will find a narrative rich in cultural heritage, exploring themes of identity and belonging within the context of crime and family dynamics. As Kerry navigates her tumultuous relationships and the complexities of her past, she grapples with the urgency of preserving Granny Ava’s legacy. The story intertwines elements of LGBTQ+ experiences and Indigenous culture, offering a vivid portrayal of the struggles and resilience of the Salter family as they seek to reconcile their history with the present.
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A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life–winner of Australia’s Miles Franklin Award–that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors.
Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. But now her Pop is dying and she’s an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit.
Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, across the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of latching on to people–not to mention her chaotic family and the threat of a proposal to develop a prison on Granny Ava’s Island, the family’s spiritual home. On top of that, love may have found Kerry again when a good-looking white fella appears out of nowhere with eyes only for her.
As the fight mounts to stop the development, old wounds open. Surrounded by the ghosts of their Elders and the memories of their ancestors, the Salters are driven by the deep need to make peace with their past while scrabbling to make sense of their present. Kerry just hopes they can come together in time to preserve Granny Ava’s legacy and save their ancestral land.
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