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MinOn, Steve2025
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In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity. Stephen Bolin leaves a bizarre note by his deathbed, asking his sisters to take his body back to his birthplace in Far North Queensland. When they ignore his request, Stephen's corpse makes the nocturnal pilgrimage alone. But what is compelling him and what will he find there? His journey, as a kind of jiangshi, takes him back through his turbulent family history - from his Chinese great-grandfather's life on the goldfields in 1860s Queensland, to his Scottish grandparents' migration to Australia as ten-pound Poms, and to his own coming of age and coming out in Brisbane and London. Original and satirical, First Name Second Name follows four generations of one family through a reckoning with racial, familial and sexual identity.
Main title:
First name second name / by Steve MinOn.
Author:
Imprint:
St Lucia, Queensland : University of Queensland Press, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
252 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Awards:
Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer, Queensland Literary Awards, 2023.
ISBN:
9780702268809 (paperback)
Language:
English
BRN:
525734
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
St MarysFictionMINONOnloan - Due: 31 Mar 2025
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