In this multi-perspective novel, Mirandi Riwoe trains her piercing postcolonial gaze on Gold Rush-era Australia, lending richness to the lives of the Chinese settlers who are often mere footnotes in our history. Ying and Lai Yue are outsiders before their arrival in Far North Queensland, where they have gone to find their fortunes after their younger siblings are sold into slavery. While Ying stru ... (read more)
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and two novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018) and The Newcomer (Scribe, 2021). Beautiful Revolutionary was shortlisted for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the ALS Gold Medal, while The Love of a Bad Man was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. She is a 2020–2022 Marten Bequest Scholar for Prose.