With strong voices and kinetic prose, Lucashenko’s engrossing narrative speaks to the ongoing traumas of indigenous life in Australia.
Kerry cajoles Donna into attending their mother’s birthday party, where Donna explodes with a secret that fractures the family just as their feud with Buckley reaches a fever pitch. An unexpected sexual relationship with a white man Kerry went to school with leads her to discover that her sister, Donna, who was presumed dead after going missing nearly 20 years ago, is in fact alive, passing for white, and working with Buckley. Her older brother, washed-up soccer star Ken, launches a crusade to fight the land sale to soothe his rage over his younger brother, whom they call Black Superman, for getting ahead with a fancy government job in Sydney. Her first novel, Steam Pigs, was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Secrets are unravelled, character flaws are revealed. Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Set in the fictional Australian town of Durrongo, stories of generations of an Aboriginal family living on Country are shared through a fast-paced plot. A stranger rides into a one-horse town on a shiny new motorbike. During a trip to a favorite swimming spot on her family’s ancestral land, Kerry learns crooked local official Jim Buckley plans to sell the land, which is owned by the state, to build a prison. Melissa Lucashenko’s new novel Too Much Lip is a dark comedy about ordinary people. With 33-year-old Kerry Salter’s girlfriend in jail after a bipolar episode culminating in armed robbery, Kerry rides her motorcycle from Sydney to her small hometown of Durrongo, New South Wales, to visit her terminally ill grandfather. A daughter gets caught in her Aboriginal Australian family’s complicated legacy in Indigenous Australian writer Lucashenko’s darkly funny U.S.
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