AWW22 Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams - Anita Heiss
Chaired by Jared Thomas.
\nHugely popular and award-winning author Anita Heiss\u2019s new novel opens with a fictionalised account of 1852\u2019s Gundagai floods, still Australia\u2019s deadliest. But for the heroic efforts of Wiradyuri men Yarri and Jacky Jacky, the toll would have been much higher. Yarri\u2019s daughter Wagadhaany survives the flood only to become an indentured slave to the settlers her father rescued. A nuanced examination of Black and White relations, a celebration of family and Country, and a literary celebration of the Wiradyuri language, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray is Anita\u2019s finest book yet.