SuitabookBridge of triangles
John Muk Muk Burke
- Reading
- Read at a pace that leaves room to pause over Chris’s changing understanding of identity. You could invite your reader to notice how the story connects personal family experience with a wider sense of heritage.
- Themes
- Ancestry and belonging: Chris feels drawn towards the landscape of his Wiradjuri ancestors and comes to understand his family as exiles in their own land. The novel presents ancestral connection as a meaningful way of understanding identity and belonging.
- Worth knowing
- Poverty and despair are part of Chris’s experience, alongside family unhappiness and displacement. These circumstances may feel heavy; consider whether your reader would welcome time to talk about them as they arise.