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'An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thundering waves crashing on unseen shores.
'Spanning four generations, with a focus on the 1960s and 70s, an era of rapid social change and burgeoning Aboriginal rights, Where the Fruit Falls is a re-imagining of the epic Australian novel.
'Brigid Devlin, a young Aboriginal woman, and her twin daughters navigate a troubled nation of First Peoples, settlers and refugees – all determined to shape a future on stolen land. Leaving the sanctuary of her family’s apple orchard, Brigid sets off with no destination and a willy wagtail for company. As she moves through an everchanging landscape, Brigid unravels family secrets to recover what she’d lost – by facing the past, she finally accepts herself. Her twin daughters continue her journey with their own search for self-acceptance, truth and justice.' (Publication summary)
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Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Ugliness and Beauty : Karen Wyld’s Poignant New Novel
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 429 2021; (p. 40)
— Review of Where the Fruit Falls 2020 single work novel 'Set in colonial Australia in the 1960s and 1970s, Karen Wyld’s new novel Where the Fruit Falls examines the depths of Black matriarchal fortitude over four generations. Across the continent, Black resistance simmers. First Nations people navigate continued genocide and displacement, with families torn apart by the state. Where the Fruit Falls focuses on the residual effects and implications of such realities, though it presents a quieter narrative: one of apple trees, wise Aunties, guiding grandmothers, and settlers both malicious and kind-hearted.' (Introduction) -
Anne Brewster Reviews Where the Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 26 2020-2021;
— Review of Where the Fruit Falls 2020 single work novel'Karen Wyld’s Where the Fruit Falls is an important new novel in the field of Australian Aboriginal literature and a tribute to the work of UWAP under the stewardship of its out-going director Terri-Ann White who, as Wyld says in her Acknowledgements, ‘helped grow UWAP into a treasured Australian publisher’.' (Introduction)
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Yarningup Aboriginal Women’s Storytelling
Elfie Shiosaki
(interviewer),
2020
single work
interview
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 120-129)
-
Ugliness and Beauty : Karen Wyld’s Poignant New Novel
2021
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 429 2021; (p. 40)
— Review of Where the Fruit Falls 2020 single work novel 'Set in colonial Australia in the 1960s and 1970s, Karen Wyld’s new novel Where the Fruit Falls examines the depths of Black matriarchal fortitude over four generations. Across the continent, Black resistance simmers. First Nations people navigate continued genocide and displacement, with families torn apart by the state. Where the Fruit Falls focuses on the residual effects and implications of such realities, though it presents a quieter narrative: one of apple trees, wise Aunties, guiding grandmothers, and settlers both malicious and kind-hearted.' (Introduction) -
Anne Brewster Reviews Where the Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 26 2020-2021;
— Review of Where the Fruit Falls 2020 single work novel'Karen Wyld’s Where the Fruit Falls is an important new novel in the field of Australian Aboriginal literature and a tribute to the work of UWAP under the stewardship of its out-going director Terri-Ann White who, as Wyld says in her Acknowledgements, ‘helped grow UWAP into a treasured Australian publisher’.' (Introduction)
-
Yarningup Aboriginal Women’s Storytelling
Elfie Shiosaki
(interviewer),
2020
single work
interview
— Appears in: Westerly , vol. 65 no. 2 2020; (p. 120-129)
