Cover; Preliminaries; from the heart; the first white man born; raised to this ... ; funerals; success; ernest solomon scat; hairy angels; what reason; strictly routine singing; well-meaning friends and that entrepreneurial spirit; ern to close; what jack and kathleen built; a menace in our midst; heartbeats in the grass; my sandy heart; in white and black; some tiny inlet; hazel eyes!; mirrors; we move ... ; registering romance; sandy two; headache; stormy birth; to the chief protector of aborgines; Cuddles; to the chief protector of aborigines; whispering stories; a writer; jetty
Summary
A powerful and triumphant novel in which the narrator, the 'first white man born', sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post-colonial history. Co-winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award