NSWRC Launches Book Yarn!

Today the NSW Reconciliation Council launches its new book club: Book Yarn

The book club will meet on the first Tuesday of every month to discuss books related to reconciliation.

Book Yarn will also run a monthly online forum on each book to allow members from all over the State to join the conversation and share their thoughts.

The first book to be read and discussed is Home by Larissa Behrendt.

Larissa is the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year. She is also Professor of Law and the Director of Research at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS. She is a Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman. Larissa has authored several books on Indigenous legal issues and in 2002 she won the David Uniapon Award and in 2005 the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for her novel Home. She is also a keynote speaker at the NSW Reconciliation Conference 2009.

"Home is Garibooli's story, but is also the story of a family and of a people. Author Larissa Behrendt uses it to humanise the impact of the segregation and oppression of Aboriginal people in Australia. She does this very powerfully. The reader is drawn in to Garibooli's struggle to synthesise her past and her present, and to her children's struggles after they are abandoned by their father following Garibooli's death." (Sally Murphy - Aussiereviews.com)

The first meeting of Book Yarn will be on Tuesday 1st December from 7:00pm at NSWRC Offices in Glebe.

Join the movement and become an online member now so you can be a part of Book Yarn and access the Forum and other resources.

Become a member now and you could win a copy of Home signed by Larissa Behrendt!

One lucky person who becomes an online member of the NSW Reconciliation Council will win the prize drawn on the 20th Novermber 2009. Become a member now and start having a yarn about Home.