Linguistically commodious and panoramically plotted, Wright’s 700-page monster would have given Henry James a heart attack – but it has so much to say
” descends: a mysterious haze, the sum total of everything out of joint in the community. The townspeople do everything to combat it: spruik it as a tourist attraction, wait for government to blow it up, play it Dvorak and Bach, consider amending the constitution, send a butterfly to Canberra , build a giant hologram scarecrow of the mayor to scare it away. None of it works.
Cause’s cause echoes that of many colonised peoples, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous: how to use the techniques and tools of the coloniser while honouring your own cultural sovereignty and independence.Maintaining its tidy appearance amid bad plumbing, overcrowded public housing, polluted water and faulty electricity, Praiseworthy’s denizens can be forgiven for pursuing visions of better things.
Tommyhawk’s elder brother, Aboriginal Sovereignty – so called because those were “the only words [his father] loved to say” – is a 17-year-old dancer and boxer. Destined by lore to marry his promised wife, a 15-year-old girl, Sovereignty is informed on by his brother and taken into custody: in the eyes of White law, their relationship amounts to paedophilia, the raping of a minor.
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