Published: July 28, 2022
Beauty and pain intertwine as Dank deftly weaves the story of her family, ancestors and country
Debra Dank is a Gudanji and Wakaja woman and a mother, grandmother and educator. These are important biographical notes, because this book is about all those qualifiers that not only make the author who she is, but root the overall story and guide its purpose.
Part memoir, part bush guide and customs manual, this is a book to lean into and take time with. Foremost, this is a story to learn from. In her introduction, Dank calls it “a strange kind of letter, written to my place”, and yet that strange weaving back and forth through time and dimension adds to the reader’s experience.
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