'A groundbreaking novel for black and white Australia.' Richard Flanagan ' A lyrical, courageous storyteller, Winch redefines Australia in this generational tale of reclamation and hope.' The Times This is a complex, satisfying book, both story and testimony. The Yield works to reclaim a history that never should have been lost in the first place.' Erica Wagner, The Guardian UK 'Winch has built her novel with subtlety and strength. 'A testament to the saving grace of language itself, and to the corrosive consequences when it falls out of use and disappears' Wall Street Journal
Told in three masterfully woven narratives, The Yield is a celebration of language and an exploration of what makes a place "home." A story of a people and a culture dispossessed, it is also a joyful reminder of what once was and what endures-a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling, and identity, that offers hope for the future. Determined to make amends and honor Poppy and her family, she vows to save their land-a quest guided by the voice of her grandfather that leads into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Her overwhelming grief is compounded by the pain, anger, and sadness of memory-of growing up in poverty before her mother’s incarceration, of the racism she and her people endured, of the mysterious disappearance of her sister when they were children an event that has haunted her and changed her life. The land itself aids him he finds the words on the wind.Īfter his passing, Poppy’s granddaughter, August, returns home from Europe, where she has lived the past ten years, to attend his burial. Before he takes his last breath, Poppy is determined to pass on the language of his people, the traditions of his ancestors, and everything that was ever remembered by those who came before him. A member of the indigenous Wiradjuri tribe, he has spent his adult life in Prosperous House and the town of Massacre Plains, a small enclave on the banks of the Murrumby River. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert “Poppy” Gondiwindi has one final task he must fulfill. A young Indigenous Australian woman searches for her grandfather's dictionary, the key to halting a mining company from destroying her family's home and ancestral land in this exquisitely written, heartbreaking, yet hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, suffering, and empowerment in the tradition of Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, and Amy Harmon.
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