Swallow the air
Winch, Tara June2025
Book
The much-loved debut of 2020 Miles Franklin Award winner Tara June Winch available in paperback for the first time. When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn't seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong. Swallow the Air is an unforgettable story of living in a torn world and finding the thread to help sew it back together.
Main title:
Swallow the air / Tara June Winch ; [introduction by Yasmin Smith].
Author:
Winch, Tara June, authorSmith, Yasmin, writer of introduction
Work:
Edition:
First Nations classics edition.
Imprint:
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2025.©2006
Collation:
xiv, 165 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
First published 2006 by University of Queensland Press.
Awards:
Miles Franklin Award winning author
ISBN:
9780702269165 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
488695