My Time of Eagles, Steve Hawe, 2020. Boolarong Press, Amazon, Outback fiction novel
Remote Qld, circa ’70s, when wool is gold and wedge-tailed eagles are on the nose.At Savanna State High, Roxy befriends Tina after a racial slur, and invites her home for a camp-over. At the local woolshed dance, Roxy confronts a grazier over a drunken boast of his tally of slaughtered eagles. A strange massing of eagles soon after, and their eventual disappearance, leads Roxy to her new friend’s door. But Tina’s mother remains tight-lipped. For Irene, indigenous elder and keeper of wedgie lore, Mother Nature’s curveball invokes disturbing echoes from the dreamtime.
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