#AmReading @indigenousauthors
I started #BlakBooks to share books authored by #AboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanders

Fourth book I want to share is Home Coming by Elfie Shiosaki.

Elfie is a Noongar and Yawuru writer, editor and academic.

In this debut book, Elfie delved into the archives that government kept about her family, as well as her family's stories and correspondence. So this book shows personal impacts of governments' eugenic policies that were designed to fracture #FirstNations families and communities.

Using a verse style narrative, she rewrites false history to reclaim the story of her family. And by doing so, demonstrates the strengh of #StolenGenerations to survive attempted genocide.

Publisher is a First Nations owned press in Broome, Western Australia. #Magabala is the most remote publisher in Australia.

Edit: just after I posted, Elfie's books was announced as a short-listee in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Go sis!