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Grief, racism and uncertain futures: your guide to the 2019 Miles Franklin shortlist
I think it’s fair to say that each year the selected novels on the Miles Franklin shortlist manifest the zeitgeist, reflecting on some of the issues that are troubling society.
This year they take on and inflect some signature themes: racial/cultural relationships; human engagement with the natural world; and, threading through each novel, the problem of mourning – for lost loves, for the ruins of the past, for uncertain futures, for a hurt planet.
- Jen Webb
- The Conversation
Gregory Day’s A Sand Archive starts with an introduction to…