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Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginial lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family life back in Sydney is defined by her complex relationship with her father, Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life - career, family, friends and relationships - her father is confronting his own uncomfortable truths, as his secret double-life implodes. Can Simone accept her father for the man he is and forgive him for the man he's not?
Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginial lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family life back in Sydney is defined by her complex relationship with her father, Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a mod...
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March 29, 2017
An excellent view into the struggles of Aboriginal Australians. Struggles between men and women, fathers and daughter. There are a lot of other plot points too that are extremely interesting such as the parallel between the professor and the narrators father. She revered the professor but despises her father. Through the narration style of the book, it becomes clear that the two men are not actually that different. This is a wonderful book, bringing an intense array of emotions. Readers should be ready for a wild ride, from start to finish, as the stories and worlds of the individual people get slowly pulled together.
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Larissa Behrendt is a Professor of Law and Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney, and completed a Master of Laws and a Doctorate at Harvard Law School in 1994 and 1998. She is a member of the Eualeyai/Kamilaroi nations of north-west New South Wales and in 2009 was named the NAIDOC Indigenous Person of the Year. Her first novel, Home, was the winner of the 2002 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers and also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (South-East Asia/Pacific region). Her second book, Legacy is a compelling novel about fathers and daughters, the destructive force of anger and the redemptive power of forgiveness on individuals, families and societies.
Larissa Behrendt is a Professor of Law and Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney, and completed a Master of Laws and a Doctorate at Harvard Law School in 1994 and 1998. She is a member of the Eualeyai/Kamilaroi nations of north-west New South...
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