Name: The Yield
ISBN: 9780063003460

Tara June Winch

"Originally published ... in Australia in 2019 by Penguin Random House Australia"--Copyright page.

The Yield

Sandaru Ravihari

I listened to the audiobook version and I took my time to digest the story as it was not easy to keep up with the storyline and the words used. There seems to be a great deal of hype around this book however, I would not see the hype was justified. Definitely a good read but it was also a difficult read. However, I learned about indigenous people in Australia and the Wiradjuri culture.

Francine Corry

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Katie Galvin

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things- baayanha. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land - a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch's The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity.

The Yield

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