A review by frankie_s
Benang: From the Heart by Kim Scott

3.0

I got a lot from this book, and I’m glad I read it. It’s deeply affecting and sad and important and made me think about the impossibility of forgetting what hasn’t even been remembered. When your ancestors are both abusers and abused, the deep damage that can do. The rotten lie of Australian settler culture. The magical realism elements are effective. I only give it three stars because very often I could not follow it for many pages at a time. Temporally and in terms of relationships described it was deeply disorienting - likely intentional, but it really made it hard to stay engaged.