Environmentalist Cassie Flanagan Willanski's debut collection of short stories looks at white Australian people's relationships with the land and the Indigenous people they share it with.
In Here Where We Live, Flanagan Willanski combines highly effective imagery, timely and poignant themes to create stories that are both deep and engaging.
The collection employs a good combination of dialogue, narration and description to create a memorable and powerful collection of stories.
In one story a woman moves her children south in search of rain, in another, a girl throws her glasses into the river to avoid bearing witness to uncomfortable truths; each tale expertly builds on its own premise in order to contribute to the collection's broader themes of cultutral identity and environmental responsibility.
A well crafted and provocative collection that will leave readers pondering just who we are and exactly where we are doing for a long time after putting it down.
- Here Where We Live, Wakefield Press, RRP $24.95, wakefieldpress.com.au
