One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton

One Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick MortonViolence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction One Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded. It is a meditation on the anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders. Yet it is also a testimony

answers many of these often-asked questions

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound

Within one week of living in Wilcannia

Lauren Olamina tells of a great love divided between her young daughter

romping through numbers

Enola must unravel the clues to find this left-handed lady

a sinister creature lures the kids' mum through a door in the basement

These essays

and an array of magicians (both dead and alive)

Claire was four years old when she was taken to the Bungalow mission in Alice Springs

with a liberal sprinkling of fairy wrens

understanding and openness to sharing