Milk

by Dylan Van Den Berg

On the precipice of something life changing, a young Palawa man plunges into an exploration of self and Country. Carried with the winds of a metaphysical Flinders Island the place where it all happened he is drawn back to the dawn of colonisation; to a woman who bore the brunt of the oppressors' violence and then forward to her granddaughter, who buried the truth as a means of survival. Stirring up stories together, with parts both achingly sad and unexpectedly funny, what unfolds reveals by slow degrees painful but important truths. Do we own the stories of our ancestors? And does the passage of time undermine a connection to Country?

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Published June 30, 2021