A review by kleonard
The White Girl by Tony Birch

2.0

In this novel set in Australia, an Aborigine woman seeks to protect her white-passing daughter from the white men of their small village. Ultimately, she takes the girl and runs to a larger city, where by chance she finds refugee with an Aborigine family. I wish this had been better: the subject matter is important and explores a part of Australia that many people don't know much about. But the characters are mostly flat, and the dialogue is too often unbelievable. There is an abrupt end to the main narrative, with many loose ends, and an awkward epilogue makes the book even more unsatisfying to the reader.