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Dirt poor Islanders / Winnie Dunn.

Dirt poor Islanders / Winnie Dunn.
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ISBN 9780733649264 (paperback)
Name Dunn, Winnie author.
Title Dirt poor Islanders / Winnie Dunn.
Published Gadigal Country ; Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2024.
©2024
Description 293 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Meadow Reed used to get confused when explaining that she had grandparents from Australia, Tonga and Great Britain. She'd say she was full-White and full-Tongan, thinking that so many halves made separate wholes. Despite the Anglo-Saxon genetics that gave Meadow a narrow nose and light-brown skin, everybody who raised her was Tongan. Everybody who loved her was Tongan. This was what made her Tongan. Growing up in the heat-hummed streets of Mt Druitt in Western Sydney, Meadow will face palangis who think they are better than Fobs, women who fall into other women, what it means to have many mothers, a playful rain and even Pineapple Fanta. For this half-White, half-Tongan girl, the world is bigger than the togetherness she has grown up in. Finding her way means pushing against the constraints of tradition, family and self until she becomes whole in her own right. Meadow is going to see that being a dirt poor Islander girl is more beautiful than she can even begin to imagine. Dirt Poor Islanders is a potent, mesmerising novel that opens our eyes to the brutal fractures navigated when growing up between two cultures and the importance of understanding all the many pieces of yourself.
Subjects Racially mixed people -- New South Wales -- Fiction
Tongan Australians -- Fiction
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
Australian fiction
Mount Druitt (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
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