Don Watson's bestselling titles include Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, Death Sentence and The Bush, which won the Indie Book of the Year and the NSW Premier's Literary Award. An acclaimed speechwriter and screenwriter, he is also beloved for his columns and essays on Australian and American politics.
How to sum up this story? It's uncontainable. It wrangles worlds. It keeps getting wider and deeper like a stone in a pond. At its heart - an extraordinary telling of an extraordinary friendship. -- <B>Paul Kelly AO</B> 'A truly magnificent achievement' -- <B>Peter Carey</B> 'Wholly unexpected and original ... a gritty cross-cultural parable that ends with a fragile glimmer of hope.' -- <B>Tom Griffiths, <I>Australian Book Review</I></B> 'A witty and compassionate book about friendship, Indigenous self-determination and people under stress.' * <I><B>The Conversation</B></I> *