FALS Book Club - June 2021

Fri Jun 25 2021 at 07:00 am

Townsville Yacht Club | Townsville

Foundation for Australian Literary Studies
Publisher/HostFoundation for Australian Literary Studies
FALS Book Club - June 2021
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This month we're reading Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke.
Liked it? Loved it? Didn't finish it? Come anyway!
The FALS Book Club is a no-shame book club, so grab a drink*, order something from the menu* and share your thoughts with fellow Australian literature lovers.
Please RSVP "going" by Wednesday 23rd June so we can book a table.
From the publisher:
In Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories.
The book is called FOREIGN SOIL. Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.
The young mother keeps writing, the rejection letters keep arriving . . .
In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you, it will have you by the heartstrings. Contains the brand new story 'Aviation'.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Townsville Yacht Club, 1 Plume Street (off Palmer St), Townsville, QLD, Australia 4810, Australia

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