‘Swallow the Air’. Travelling with May is a rich, but confronting experience.

In Tara June Winch’s novel “Swallow the Air,” a young Indigenous woman called May takes a journey, trying to escape the pain, violence, racism and poverty in her life. But her journey leads her back to where she started - her family and the country of the Wiradjuri people. Will she stop running?

Tara June Winch won the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award for her book ‘The Yield’. Source: Photo by AAP 16 July 2020

As part of NAIDOC 2020 celebrations, Indonesian freelance writer Arif Furqan talks about what makes ‘Swallow the Air’ a unique reading experience that deepens our understanding of the 2020 NAIDOC theme, “Always Was. Always Will Be.”

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