Fiction World Tour available at Belleville Public Library
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From the frigid North to the hot sandy Outback, next we hit Australia, for author Melissa Lucashenko. Try Too Much Lip, a gritty and darkly funny novel that won Australia's Miles Franklin Award. The book follows a First Nations Australian named
Kerry Salter as she returns home to face her family and to protect the land of their ancestors. Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison, but from the moment she returns to her family home, she finds herself slipping back into a life of crime. As she deals with the imminent death of her father and fights the developers who would destroy her ancestral land, she wonders, will this be the time she finally loses the battle? Available as an eBook or audiobook on Hoopla
Our final destination is India, where we find the novel Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (2009). This is an epic saga, starting just before the time of the Opium Wars, a time of colonial upheaval. An old slave ship, The Ibis, is making a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean. The crew is a motley mix of sailors, stowaways, and convicts, both Indians and Westerners. As their family ties wash away, the unlikely group come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers, and an unlikely dynasty is born. This vast historical adventure spans from the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, to the back streets of China. Don't miss this masterpiece from an acclaimed novelist at the top of his game. Available in print, or as an eBook on Libby.
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