Taboo
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Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2019.
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Scott, K.
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Published
Easthampton, MA : Small Beer Press, 2019.
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287 pages ; 23 cm
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English

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Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged. We walk with the ragtag group through this taboo country and note in them glimmers of re-connection with language, lore, country. We learn alongside them how countless generations of Noongar may have lived in ideal rapport with the land. Taboo won four literary awards, was longlisted for four and shortlisted for three more. It is a novel of survival and renewal, as much as destruction; and, ultimately, of hope as much as despair.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Scott, K. (2019). Taboo (First Small Beer Press edition.). Small Beer Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Scott, Kim, 1957-. 2019. Taboo. Small Beer Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Scott, Kim, 1957-. Taboo Small Beer Press, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Scott, Kim. Taboo First Small Beer Press edition., Small Beer Press, 2019.

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