Becoming Kirrali Lewis
Harrison, Jane, 1960-2015
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Set within the explosive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1980s, Becoming Kirrali Lewis chronicles the journey of a young Aboriginal teenager as she leaves her home town in rural Victoria to take on a law degree in Melbourne in 1985. Adopted at birth by a white family, Kirrali doesn't question her cultural roots until a series of life-changing events force her to face up to her true identify. Her decision to search for her biological parents sparks off a political awakening that no-one sees coming, least of all Kirrali herself as she discovers her mother is white and her father is a radical black activist. Narrative flashbacks to the 1960s, where Kirrali's biological mother, Cherie, is rebelling against her parent's strict conservatism sees her fall into a clandestine relationship with an Aboriginal man. Unmarried and pregnant, Cherie's traumatic story of an unforgiving Australian society give meaning to Kirrali's own rites of passage nearly twenty years later. The generational threads of human experience are the very things that will complete her. If only she can let go.
Main title:
Becoming Kirrali Lewis / Jane Harrison.
Author:
Harrison, Jane, 1960-, author
Imprint:
Broome, W.A. : Magabala Books, c2015.Broome, Western Australia Magabala Books, 2015.©2015
Collation:
235 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Shortlisted for 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards – Young Adult Fiction
Awards:
Winner 2014, State Library of Queensland, Black&write Prize Winner.
ISBN:
9781922142801
Dewey class:
A823.4F
LC class:
PR9619.3.H3313
Language:
English
Subject:
College students -- FictionYoung adult fictionLife changing events -- Juvenile fictionCollege students -- Juvenile fictionAdoptees -- Identification -- Juvenile fictionLife change events -- Juvenile fictionAboriginal Australians -- Ethnic identity -- Juvenile fictionFiction -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- TextsAustralia -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile fictionAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collection
BRN:
373501