After Story by Larissa Behrendt review – trauma and secrets unspool on literary tour of England

Travelling the seat of colonial violence, an Indigenous mother and daughter complicate and celebrate the canon in Behrendt’s thoughtful, wry novel

“For Indigenous people, culture equals life,” Terri Janke wrote this month. Culture is not a discrete thing, to be observed at the theatre or behind museum glass. It can’t be sealed off from place, history, or family – it is these things.

This principle is at the heart of academic and filmmaker Larissa Behrendt’s significant body of work, and of her third novel, also out this month.

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