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Too Much Lip

Melissa Lucashenko

2018320 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2018
first published
  • 2018University of Queensland Press · ENGISBN 9780702261046
  • 2018University of Queensland Press · ENGISBN 9780702261039
  • 2018University of Queensland Press · ENGISBN 9780702261053
  • 2020HarperCollins Publishers · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9780063032538
  • 2020HarperCollins Publishers · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780063032552
  • 2018University of Queensland Press · 328 pages · ENGISBN 9780702259968
  • 2020HarpercollinsISBN 9781665033176
  • 2021HarperVia · 320 pagesISBN 9780063032545

Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world spews. But now her Pop is dying and she's an inch away from the lockup, so she heads south on a stolen Harley for one last visit. Kerry plans to spend twenty-four hours, tops, across the border. She quickly discovers, though, that Bundjalung country has a funny way of latching on to people—not to mention her chaotic family and the threat of a proposal to develop a prison on Granny Ava’s Island, the family’s spiritual home. On top of that, love may have found Kerry again when a good-looking white fella appears out of nowhere with eyes only for her. As the fight mounts to stop the development, old wounds open. Surrounded by the ghosts of their Elders and the memories of their ancestors, the Salters are driven by the deep need to make peace with their past while scrabbling to make sense of their present. Kerry just hopes they can come together in time to preserve Granny Ava’s legacy and save their ancestral land.

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