'How are they losing their children like this?' Fiona McFarlane's novel interrogates the stain of white presence on Aboriginal land
- Written by: Lucy Christopher, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Tasmania
Flinders Ranges, South AustraliaMegan Clark/Unsplash, CC BY“How are they losing their children like this, all over the country? They aren’t used to the desert.”
These are the thoughts of a Pashtun cameleer in Fiona McFarlane’s second novel, The Sun Walks Down, set in South Australia’s Flinders Ranges in 1883. This...