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Steam Pigs
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Melissa Lucashenko’s first novel makes no apologies. With direct and gutsy language, her characters live their lives in the shadows cast by indifferent affluence.

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I haven’t got a ‘boyfriend’ Mum.
Fine way to be carrying on then, out all Sat’dy night with a strange fella…
Muuum.
Don’t you marm me, my girl. When I was your age I wasn’t out running around with any stray bloke with a flash car and the gift of the gab.
And when I’m your age, thought Sue maliciously, I won’t be ringing up my kids to scab money and make their lives a misery into the bargain.

Sue Wilson, young and Aboriginal, escapes her ‘too-large, too-poor family in a too-small’ north Queensland town for Logan City’s frontier sprawl. Entering ‘the mythic world of Work’ she discovers that the view from behind the bar is less than glamorous, but pays the rent. When she meets Roger the good times begin to roll until she finds herself starring in a feature with medium level violence.

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Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko

Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Edenglassie has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction, the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance.