{"product_id":"we-come-with-this-place","title":"We Come With This Place","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWE COME WITH THIS PLACE AWARDS AND LISTINGS:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIndigenous Writers' Prize\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShortlisted for three Queensland Literary Awards 2023\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 Stella Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrime Minister's Summer Reading List 2022, Grattan Institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDank calibrates human emotions with honesty and insight, and there is plenty of dry, down-to-earth humour. You can feel and smell and see the puffs of dust under moving feet, the ever-present burning heat, the bright exuberance of a night-time campfire, the emerald flash of a flock of budgerigars, the journeying wind, the harshness of a station shanty, the welcome scent of fresh water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Come with This Place\u003c\/i\u003e is deeply personal, a profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45707492983020,"sku":"9781760687397","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781760687397.jpg?v=1725900435","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/we-come-with-this-place","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}