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Original Title:	Steam Pigs (UQP Black Australian Writers)
ISBN:	0702229350 (ISBN13: 9780702229350)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Logan City(Australia)
Literary Awards:	Dobbie Literary Award (1998)

Steam Pigs

Melissa Lucashenko

Paperback | Pages: 255 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 41 Users | 3 Reviews

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Title	:	Steam Pigs
Author	:	Melissa Lucashenko
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 255 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1998 by University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
Categories	:	Fiction

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Sue Wilson, young and Aboriginal, escapes her 'too-large, too-poor family in a too-small' north Queensland town for Logan City's frontier sprawl. Entering 'the mythic world of Work' she discovers that the view from behind the bar is less than glamorous, but pays the rent. When she meets Roger the good times begin to roll until she finds herself starring in a feature with medium level violence.

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Steam Pigs is the story of Sue, an Aboriginal girl from Townsville who moves south to Logan to get away from her past. It starts fairly gently - she lives with her brother and helps care for her nephews, gets her first ever job, and has fun. She meets a man and falls in love. Things don't go so well from there.Steam Pigs is a book about intersectionality, published in 1997 before that concept was discussed much (by white people at least). It covers issues ranging from domestic violence to racial

Loved this novel by Melissa Lucashenko. As a non-Indigenous reader who has grown up in Logan and Brisbane's southside, I found this book to be an important re-orientation of the places I have lived, live and travel in. I really liked the protagonist character Sue whose strength and vulnerabilities were beautifully drawn out on the pages. Following Sue's critical feminist conscious awakening was exciting to read, and also felt familiar. Lucashenko is one of my favourite writers from the



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Melissa Lucashenko is an Australian writer of European and Goorie heritage. She received an honours degree in public policy from Griffith University in 1990. In 1997, she published her first novel Steam Pigs. It won the Dobbie Literary Award for Australian womens fiction and was shortlisted for both the New South Wales Premiers Literary Award and the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize. Steam Pigs

Steam Pigs is the story of Sue, an Aboriginal girl from Townsville who moves south to Logan to get away from her past. It starts fairly gently - she lives with her brother and helps care for her nephews, gets her first ever job, and has fun. She meets a man and falls in love. Things don't go so well from there.Steam Pigs is a book about intersectionality, published in 1997 before that concept was discussed much (by white people at least). It covers issues ranging from domestic violence to racial