The family struggles to keep it together and, as the book progresses, we come to see why. She was earlier longlisted for the Miles Franklin award in 2014 for her novel 'Mullumbimby'. Essentially, Too much lip is a contemporary story about an indigenous family living in the small fictional country town of Durrongo in Bundjalung country, in northeast New South Wales. Melissa became the third Indigenous Australian author to win the award she will receive $60,000 prize money. Lucashenko weaves a (sometimes) fabulous tale with the very real politics of cultural survival to offer a story of hope and redemption for all Australians.” The Brisbane-based author accepted the award at a ceremony in Sydney on Tuesday night, according to a report by ABC. I have no idea what to do next, other than keep plugging away at my civilising mission to mainstream Australia.” Chair of the judging panel, Richard Neville - State Library of NSW’s Mitchell Librarian- said in the statement, “'Too Much Lip' is driven by personal experience, historical injustice, anger and what in Indigenous vernacular could be described as ‘deadly Blak’ humour. I only recently realised that I could be doing so much more in my writing and now this goes and happens. On winning the award, Melissa said in an official statement, “It’s kind of terrifying.
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