TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott,Kim
TI  - Taboo
T2  - Read how you want 16
SN  - 9781525260254
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - [Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.]
PB  - Read How You Want
KW  - Noongar (Australian people)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Large type books
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published by Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, 2016; Copyright page from the original book; Set in 16 point Verdana; Optimized reading formats
N2  - Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged. We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. This is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair
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