Description: Written in a fictocritical style, this book introduces a new 'multi-realist' kind of analysis that focuses on institutions (Indigenous or European), their spheres of influence and long history of struggle for survival, and how they organized to stay alive as alliances shifted and changed.
Brief description: Paddy Roe, OAM, was a Senior law man in Goolarabooloo country, and community leader in Broome, in the second half of the twentieth century. He has created two previous books with Stephen Muecke, Gularabulu (1983) and Reading the Country, (1985).
Review Quotes:
"In thisremarkable book, Stephen Muecke continues his conversation with his mentor, Paddy Roe. Their new story is a guide to a possible future, based on a past that is never simply past. Paddy Roe is always, and always will be, present, while Muecke remains his enquiring listener and dutiful scribe.
This is our children's country. To disrespect country, to harm it, is to harm them." --Tony Birch, author and essayist