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Swallow the Air
Dust on Waterglass
St Lucia
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University of Queensland Press
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2006
Z1265164
2003
selected work
short story
(taught in 33 units)
Swallow the Air follows the life of 15-year-old May Gibson, an Aboriginal girl from New South Wales whose mother commits suicide. May and her brother go to live with their aunt, but eventually May travels further afield, first to Redfern's Block in Sydney, then to the Northern Territory, and finally into central New South Wales. She travels to escape, but also in pursuit of a sense of her own history, family, and identity.
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 pg. 61-74
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- Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
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