Mullumbimby

'Cheeky, thoughtful, real - a powerful novel about country and belonging.' - Kate Grenville 'A modern tale of the clash between cultures, of the importance of belonging, and of the pitfalls of making assumptions about other people and their background.' - Books+Publishing '... a wonderfully light and deft novel ...' - Caroline Baum 'I can say with hand on heart that Melissa Lucashenko is one of my favourite living Australian writers ... [Mullumbimby] is a wonderful, beautifully rendered, mature piece of work, riven with wisdom and empathy and love and the whole glorious and messy phantasmagoria that is family life ... Mullumbimby is to my mind Melissa's finest work. It's a book of big ideas and big heart. It is technically brilliant. Its tone and rhythm are seamless ... And it has something new. Humour. Not just any humour. Absolute laugh out loud humour.' - Matthew Condon 'There is a lot going on around the edges of this novel that gives it depth and richness ... [an] engaging and often illuminating novel.' - The Advertiser 'The gift of this novel is that it looks beyond the recognisable and takes us on to wonder. That is something to savour.' - Newtown Review of Books 'Place is key here, and it is beautifully realised ... a warm comedy of rural and race matters.' - The Sunday Age/The Sun-Herald 'Told with a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.' - Gleebooks Gleaner 'Depicting life as equal parts cheerful and heartbreaking, mundane and back-breakingly hard ... each [reader] will take something different away from it.' - Readings Monthly 'This novel explores big picture contemporary issues [and] also depicts the fragility of the culture.' - ANZ LitLovers LitBlog