Not only is her grandfather dying of cancer, relationships within her family are fraught. Although she is fleeing the heartbreak of a broken relationship with her newly-imprisoned girlfriend back in Brisbane and dodging several warrants for her own arrest, she is nevertheless reluctant to proceed to her destination: her dilapidated family home just outside of the small town of Durrongo. We meet Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman, as she sits on her Harley, idling at an empty intersection. Though these crimes are assigned to the past, their violent legacies – poverty, addiction, abuse, discrimination – still plague the Bundjalung Nation, an Aboriginal community whose ancestral homelands lie along the northern coast of New South Wales, Australia.īut this is not a story of suffering. Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Too Much Liptells the story of stolen land and stolen children.
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