Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award and 2021 Kate Challis RAKA Award! A
beautifully written novel that puts language at the heart of remembering the past and
understanding the present.-Kate Morton A groundbreaking novel for black and white
Australia.-Richard Flanagan Man Booker Prize winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep
North A young Australian woman searches for her grandfather's dictionary the key to halting a
mining company from destroying her family's home and ancestral land in this exquisitely written
heartbreaking yet hopeful novel of culture language tradition suffering and empowerment in
the tradition of Louise Erdrich Sandra Cisneros and Amy Harmon. Knowing that he will soon die
Albert Poppy Gondiwindi has one final task he must fulfill. A member of the indigenous
Wiradjuri tribe he has spent his adult life in Prosperous House and the town of Massacre
Plains a small enclave on the banks of the Murrumby River. Before he takes his last breath
Poppy is determined to pass on the language of his people the traditions of his ancestors and
everything that was ever remembered by those who came before him. The land itself aids him he
finds the words on the wind. After his passing Poppy's granddaughter August returns home
from Europe where she has lived the past ten years to attend his burial. Her overwhelming
grief is compounded by the pain anger and sadness of memory-of growing up in poverty before
her mother's incarceration of the racism she and her people endured of the mysterious
disappearance of her sister when they were children an event that has haunted her and changed
her life. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that
Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends and honor Poppy
and her family she vows to save their land-a quest guided by the voice of her grandfather that
leads into the past the stories of her people the secrets of the river. Told in three
masterfully woven narratives The Yield is a celebration of language and an exploration of what
makes a place home. A story of a people and a culture dispossessed it is also a joyful
reminder of what once was and what endures-a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language
storytelling and identity that offers hope for the future.
