With a great gift for storytelling and a wicked sense of humour, Gorrie frankly and movingly explores the impact of racism on her family and her life, the impact of intergenerational trauma resulting from cultural dispossession, and the inevitable difficulties of making her way in the white- and male-dominated workplace of the police force.īlack and Blue is a memoir of remarkable fortitude and resilience, told with wit, wisdom, and great heart. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent a lifetime avoiding two things - her hometown and prison.

In her ten years in the force, she witnessed appalling institutional racism and sexism, and fought past those things to provide courageous and compassionate service to civilians in need, many Aboriginal themselves. A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of Mullumbimby. After watching her friends and family suffer under a deeply compromised law-enforcement system, Gorrie signed up for training to become one of a rare few Aboriginal police officers in Australia. Shortlisted for The Stella Prize, ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, NSW Premiers Literary Awards, Multicultural NSW Award. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. The story of an Aboriginal woman who worked as a police officer and fought for justice both within and beyond the Australian police force.Ī proud Gunai/Kurnai woman, Veronica Gorrie grew up dauntless, full of cheek and a fierce sense of justice. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. SHORTLISTED FOR THE DOUGLAS STEWART PRIZE FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR INDIGENOUS WRITING A dark and funny new novel from the multi-award-winning author of. She has been publishing books with UQP since 1997, with her first novel, Steam Pigs. Books similar to Too Much Lip Too Much Lip. WINNER OF THE 2022 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie author of Bundjalung and European heritage.

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