But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. The Yield by Tara June Winch UK Publication Date: Jan 2021 Literary Awards: Miles Franklin Award 2020 Reviewed by: Book Worm Rating: This ARC was provided by 4th Estate (via NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert Poppy Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. He finds the words on the wind.Īugust Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. She is the award-winning author of the short story collection After the Carnage and the novels Swallow the Air and The Yield. She has written essay, short fiction and memoir for VOGUE, VICE, McSweeneys (US), and various Australian publications.
Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. Australian (Wiradjuri) writer based in France.
In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha.
The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land.
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