An exercise in elegant and measured prose, Abdu’s literary offering is an open invitation into the garden that is the lives of its inhabitants, permitting us to visit an ecosystem of human emotions in just 318 pages.
Browsing: debut novel
Sitting down with Honi Soit, Dunn spoke to the weight and joys of such firsts, her journey in writing, and what it means for me to be able to tell her own story, in a way, in Dirt Poor Islanders, and dispel the countless representations that seem to indicate that there is one way to look or be Tongan in Mount Druitt.
