Tonsils

by Melissa Lucashenko, Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

An Indigenous Australian family takes in a white foster child, and struggles with the tensions that result. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

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About the author

Melissa Lucashenko is an Australian writer of European and Goorie heritage. She received an honours degree in public policy from Griffith University in 1990. In 1997, she published her first novel Steam Pigs. It won the Dobbie Literary Award for Australian women’s fiction and was shortlisted for both the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award and the regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Steam Pigs was followed by the Aurora Prize–winning Killing Darcy, a novel for teenagers, and Hard Yards, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award. Too Flash, a teenage novel about class and friendship, was released in 2002. Her latest novel is Mullumbimby published by UQP. Melissa lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation.

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[Perrilyn Pringle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Get her ma! Maybe if you weren't busy fucking up yours and your kids life, they wouldn't run away.