Craft For A Dry Lake by Kim Mahood

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Winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction,The Age Book of the Year Award for Non-fiction, The Dobbie Prize for Best First Book.

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In the tradition of Drusilla Modjeska’s Poppy, Mahood offers an intense and sensitive exploration of identity, familial ties and black/white relations in Australia. In Craft For A Dry Lake, Kim Mahood takes us on a lyrical journey to her heartland – travelling with her beloved cattle dog back into the Outback of her youth, seeking to lay to rest her father’s ghost but finding herself faced with many of her own.