My Prediction for Winning the 2024 Miles Franklin Award

Douglas Hawthorne
Douglas Hawthorne @dfhawthorne1
Praiseworthy - Review

I could not finish reading this book. I could only read 5% of the book. Thus, I predict that this book will win the 2024 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

This is an essentially an angry Aboriginal book. That alone does not make the book unreadable, as other Aboriginal authors have managed to convey their anger without being unreadable.

The style of narration appears to be stream of consciousness with the narrator jumping from theme to theme covering environmental issues, Land Rights, Cultural Tourism, etc.

I don't think that the author was skilled enough to carry this project off. Other authors have successfully carried off stream of consciousness while keeping the reader engaged.