The latest book by Lucashenko is powerful, humorous but most of all is filled with raw honesty about our past and present.

It opens in present day with elderly Granny Eddie who has a fall along a Brisbane footpath. White people steer clear believing her to be drunk but it is a young Asian person who helps and gets her to hospital. It’s there that we meet her activist granddaughter Winona who rails against the establishment.

We are then taken back in time  to 1855 and introduced to Mulanyin a young man who’s life is deeply affected by white English occupation.

The story takes us well and truly away from the fake history so many of us have been fed and it’s stories like these that educate and explains and puts us right in the seat of injustice to give us a great understanding of the land we occupy.

It’s an insightful and riveting read full of beautiful yet colourful characters who can make us laugh and cry. Lucashenko is truly the master of the written word and it’s no wonder she’s raking in the prizes with her latest.