Please register for this free Zoom event. Registered audience members will receive a Zoom link prior to the event. Brooklyn Public Library - Virtual MM/DD/YYYY 60 The Yield can be ordered online from our partner Greenlight Bookstore for in-store pickup or direct-to-home shipping here. He has written on books and writers for a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Air Mail, and Words without Borders.

She was born in Australia in 1983 and currently lives in France with her family.įormerly of Vanity Fair, Anderson Tepper is co-chair of the international committee of the Brooklyn Book Festival and has served on the advisory committee of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. For her first novel, she was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist and received mentorship from Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka as part of the prestigious Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. Tara June Winch is the Wiradjuri author of novel Swallow the Air and short story collection After the Carnage. It has been called “a beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and understanding the present” and “a groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia.” Told in three masterfully woven narratives, The Yield is a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous identity and storytelling.

A book her grandfather was working on before he died-a compendium of Wiradjuri language, traditions, and memories-may just hold the key. Determined to make amends for leaving and to right history’s wrongs, August races to save her home and community. Returning to the rural Australian town of Massacre Plains, August finds a mining company is set to repossess her family home and dig up ancestral land-unless she can help stop it in time. Join us for a Zoom conversation between Tara June Winch and Anderson Tepper, discussing The YieldĪfter ten years adrift in Europe, August Gondiwindi is called home for her grandfather’s memorial. 05:00 pm 06:15 pm America/New_York Tara June Winch discusses The Yield

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