In a lifetime of writing, Alexis Wright became aware of “how other people were telling stories on behalf of Aboriginal people in Australia”. A national narrative manipulated by the most powerful, she wrote in a 2016 essay, would “constantly be on my mind while trying to tell stories of who we are … The cloud is always present.”
That cloud takes tangible form in her fourth novel, Praiseworthy. Set in the scorching, dirt-poor fictional town of Praiseworthy on the Gulf of
