Purple Threads
Illustrator:
Retail Price: | $24.95 |
Betabooks Price | $19.96 |
Published: August 2011
Published By: University of Queensland Press
Stock Availability
Titles that are READY TO SHIP will be sent from our warehouse within 2 business days while stocks last. Click here for more details.
Product Description
Winner of the 2010 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writing
It fell from the sky and rose from the ground.
Water from the hills met swollen river flats
and turned wheat plains to swamplands.
Big floods washed away the farmers' profits
and losses in one giant tongue of brown water
Growing up in the shifting landscape of Gundagai with her Nan and Aunties, Sunny spends her days playing on the hills near their farmhouse and her nights dozing by the fire, listening to the big women yarn about life over endless cups of tea.
It is a life of freedom, protection, and love. But as Sunny grows she must face the challenge of being seen as different, and of having a mother whose visits are as unpredictable as the rain.
Based of Jeanine Leane's own childhood, these funny, endearing, and thought-provoking stories offer a snapshot of a unique Australian upbringing.