'Set in 1988, Barungin completes the trilogy beginning with The Dreamers and No Sugar. It deals with racially charged issues such as land rights, alcohol abuse and black deaths in custody.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'The spirited story of the Millimurra family’s stand against government ‘protection’ policies in 1930s Australia.' (From the publisher's website.)
'With humane irony the Western Australian poet, Jack Davis gives a painful insight into the process of colonisation and the transformation of his people.'
'The Dreamers is the story of a country-town family and old Uncle Worru, who in his dying days, recedes from urban hopelessness to the life and language of the Nyoongah spirit which in him has survived 'civilisation'.' (Currency Press website)