the white girl

Book Review: Tony Birch’s The White Girl pushes beyond the limits of love in one family’s experience of the Protection Act

The town that makes up the main setting of Tony Birch’s new novel The White Girl is a fictional one, but it could have been anywhere in Australia. The novel tells the story of Odette Brown, an Indigenous woman who was raised on the mission in Deane separated from her family, and in particular her father. She lives on…

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