Foreign soil
Clarke, Maxine Beneba2016
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In Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories. The book is called 'Foreign Soil'. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way. The young mother keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving.
Main title:
Foreign soil / Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Author:
Clarke, Maxine Beneba, author
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2016.
Collation:
272 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781472151476 (pbk)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2220264