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“This book is told from the point of view of Ying and Lai Yue, two Chinese siblings. Ling is the sister, who is disguised as a boy. They’ve come to the gold fields of the Palmer River to seek their fortune. Their family is struggling with gambling debts back home in China and the two youngest children have been sold to help pay off these debts. That’s the driving force of their purpose there. There’s a third character, Meriem, who is the servant of the town sex worker and an outcast, so all three of them are maligned by white society. It’s a very, very intense and complicated world that it gives us a look into.” Read more...
The Best Australian Historical Fiction
Kate Kruimink, Novelist
