FNWF2024 Book Award The Judges said: “To type your 65,000 word manuscript on your smart phone. To type a story with a complex and intricate structure, telling the intimate and cultural details of daily life in a village. That questions the invasion of colonisation, and defines the effect on the human landscape of communal cultural remembrance across generations. This book is a deep intellectual dive into village life in #PNG. The unspoken atrocities hovering. Where indigenous people like the Bebeli of New Brittain are marginalised and constantly pushed towards erasure of identity, even today. Told by women, who speak truth to each other. Old and deep all knowing truth.”
