{"product_id":"we-come-with-this-place-1","title":"We Come with this Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003eIndigenous Writers' Prize\u003cbr\u003eUTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 Stella Prize\u003cbr\u003ePrime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022, Grattan Institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Come with This Place\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is great pain in these pages, and anger at injustice, but also great love, in marriage and in family, and for the land. Dank faces head on the ingrained racism, born of brutal practice and harsh legislation, that lies always under the skin of Australia, the racism that calls a little Aboriginal girl names and beats and rapes and disenfranchises the generations before hers. She describes sudden terrible violence, between races and sometimes at home. But overwhelmingly this is a book about strong, beloved parents and grandparents, guiding and teaching their children and grandchildren what country means, about joyful gatherings and the pleasures of eating food provided by the place that nourishes them, both spiritually and physically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Come with This Place\u003c\/i\u003e is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country in Australia, to which Debra Dank belongs, but it is much more than that. Here is Australia as it has been for countless generations, land and people in effortless balance, and Australia as it became, but also Australia as it could and should be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bonnier Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226277040472,"sku":"9781804440858","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781804440858_ad67c501-ef81-4c2c-a17b-fe2ba7f2a828.jpg?v=1778560229","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/we-come-with-this-place-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}