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Swallow the Air / Tara June Winch.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
HSC WINC	HSC Item		Adult Lending	. Available .
F WINC	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

Catalogue Information
Field name	Details
ISBN	9780702235214
ISBN	0702235210
Classification	F WINC
Personal Name	Winch, Tara June
Title	Swallow the Air / Tara June Winch.
Publication Details	St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, ©2006.
Physical Description	201 pages ; 19 cm.
Content type	text
Contents Note	Swallow the Air -- Grab -- Cloudbusting -- My Bleeding Palm -- Bushfire -- Leaving Paradise -- To Run -- Territory -- The Block -- Chocolate -- Wantok -- Painted Dreaming -- Mapping Waterglass -- Just Dust -- Cocoon -- Bila Snake -- Mission -- Country -- The Jacaranda Tree -- Home.
Summary Note	When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, nto the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong.
Subject - Topical Term	Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Fiction
	Novel -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts.
	Families
	Brothers and sisters -- Australia -- Fiction.
	Identity (Psychology)
	Australian fiction -- Aboriginal Australian authors
	Social identity - Aboriginality
	Bereavement
	Mothers
	Children, Aboriginal Australian
Subject - Fiction Genre	Australian fiction
Subject - Genre	Australian fiction