HarperVia

9780063003460

STARRED REVIEW

The Yield

Tara June Winch uses a dictionary of recovered indigenous words to transmit the deeper story of Gondiwindi family history.

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Review of ‘The Yield’

In Tara June Winch’s engaging third book, The Yield, a young woman named August Gondiwindi flies back to Australia, rents a car and drives seven hours inland to the aptly named town of Massacre Plains. This is the small town where August grew up in the care of her grandparents. It’s a place “where the…

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