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A review by rainbowpizzastars
The Yield by Tara June Winch
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Heartbreaking, but important telling of how just one trauma affects multiple generations, and then can be compounded by the inter-generational trauma of Australia’s violent colonization and brutality toward indigenous people of the land, and what it takes to even start healing.
Ending felt rushed and a bit incongruent with the pace and nature of the storytelling in the rest of the book.
Also if you don’t like books that skip between different narrators or POVs, you will probably struggle with this book.
There were some confusing parts where the POV briefly shifted off the main characters via whom the story is told.
Overall, I read this in one day - it was compelling.
Edit: I think the digital version has some typos?
Ending felt rushed and a bit incongruent with the pace and nature of the storytelling in the rest of the book.
Also if you don’t like books that skip between different narrators or POVs, you will probably struggle with this book.
There were some confusing parts where the POV briefly shifted off the main characters via whom the story is told.
Overall, I read this in one day - it was compelling.
Edit: I think the digital version has some typos?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation and Grief
Moderate: Child abuse and Pedophilia
Minor: Eating disorder