The Yield

Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi has spent his life at Prosperous House beside the Murrumby River, close to a town called Massacre Plains. Sensing the end, he starts a dictionary of Wiradjuri words, each entry holding a story, so that his people's knowledge will outlast him. His granddaughter August has been living in Europe for a decade when word of his death calls her back. Grieving, she returns to everything she ran from, including her mother's jail term and a sister who vanished when they were small. Then she learns that a mining company is about to take over Prosperous, and she sets out to stop it. Interleaved letters by a missionary from the 1800s record the early history of the mission and the wrongs done there.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

352 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia

First published

2019

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9780143785750 (Hamish Hamilton, Australia)

9780063003460 (HarperVia, United States)

9781760899462 (Penguin, Australia)

9780063003477 (HarperVia, United States)

9780008437114 (HarperVia, United Kingdom)

9781761620621 (Penguin, Australia)

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