![]() ![]() Kerry just hopes they can come together in time to preserve Granny Ava's legacy and save their ancestral land. Surrounded by the ghosts of their Elders and the memories of their ancestors, the Salters are driven by the deep need to make peace with their past while scrabbling to make sense of their present. As the fight mounts to stop the development, old wounds open. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of latching on to people -not to mention her chaotic family and the threat of a proposal to develop a prison on Granny Ava's Island, the family's spiritual home. ![]() Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, across the border. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit. 3 It was the winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing 1 2 and the Stella Award. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. Too Much Lip (2018) is a novel by Australian author Melissa Lucashenko. ![]() Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. ![]()
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