She doesnt shy away from any of it, nor is she preachy or bitter. Shelf Awareness Starred Review Because this is an authentic voice writing about what it means to be an Indigenous Australian in contemporary times, Lucashenko has taken on the tough issues that come with generational trauma - displacement, incarceration, abuse, racism, substance abuse, poverty, marginalisation. Too Much Lips stark honesty illuminates a version of Indigenous life, the crippling influence of colonization and the hard-won power of resilience and healing. Crows talk and ancestors appear in this #ownvoices triumph about a family who find each other difficult to live with but impossible to stop loving. Review Quotes This intense yet sensitive dark comedy by Australian Goorie-European author Melissa Lucashenko (Mullumbimby) never holds back in its portrayal of an Indigenous family in crisis. Kerry just hopes they can come together in time to preserve Granny Avas legacy and save their ancestral land.
Surrounded by the ghosts of their Elders and the memories of their ancestors, the Salters are driven by the deep need to make peace with their past while scrabbling to make sense of their present. As the fight mounts to stop the development, old wounds open. On top of that, love may have found Kerry again when a good-looking white fella appears out of nowhere with eyes only for her.
She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of latching on to people-not to mention her chaotic family and the threat of a proposal to develop a prison on Granny Avas Island, the familys spiritual home.
Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, across the border. But now her Pop is dying and shes an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. About the Book Gritty and darkly hilarious winner of the Miles Franklin Award, TOO MUCH LIP follows a First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors- Book Synopsis A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australias Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors.
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