Tara June Winch's The Yield
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Albert Gondiwindi grew up on the mission at Massacre Plains. There he met his wife, raised a family and grandchildren and lost loved ones. As he nears death he begins recording a dictionary of the language of his people. August Gondiwindi is returning home from England. It’s a country she escaped to some ten years earlier and perhaps only the death of her grandfather Albert could call her back. Reverend Ferdinand Greenleaf pens a letter to the British Society of Ethnography. Reverend Greenleaf has founded a mission on Massacre Plains in the early part of the twentieth century and is desperately seeking help before it is too late. he Yield is told across three narratives; stories relating the history of Prosperous House on the Massacre Plains…
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