The Styx
Patricia Holland
[Lacuna]
2017
Foreword
A movingly-great read! A great story teller. After reading the first chapter I found myself laughing along with the main character’s wonderfully silent sense of humour which comes through easily and naturally. I loved her powerfully hungry take on life and the environment.
Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people need to be represented by more voices in fiction. I know children in similar situations who have hardly had a whisper of life, let alone a voice.
In this wonderfully drawn protagonist, the author’s unique style caused this sardonic Murri to read the entire book in a sitting. I cheered for both the author and the resilient, eccentric character who will live long in both heart and memory.
John Wenitong (Pemulwuy Weeatunga)
Publishing information
The Styx is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, institutions, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental, or as stated in the Acknowledgements.
Published in 2017 by Lacuna in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
Lacuna is an imprint of Golden Orb Creative
PO Box 428, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia
© Copyright Patricia Holland 2017
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievals system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Australian Copyright Act 1968, without the permission of the publisher.
All enquiries to the publisher: [email protected]
Cover design by Golden Orb Creative
Cover image “Muscinae” from Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms of Nature (1904)
Author photograph © Glenn Adamus
Print design and ebook production by Golden Orb Creative
A National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry has been created for this title.
ISBN 9781922198303 (pbk)
ISBN 9781922198310 (ebook)
Contents
Part I: Disempowered — 1990s
Part II: Empowerment — 2001–2004
Chapter 9
