pstrongHow good it is to hear a Darug voice speaking of Darug history.--Kate Grenville, author of emThe Secret Riverem, winner of the Commonwealth PrizestrongppstrongBlending the mythical power of Ta Obreht and the epic scope of Min Jin Lee, a searing historical novel that tells a story of colonization, survival, and resistance in a way never done before--a beautiful, brilliant, and brutal reimagining of the first contact between Indigenous people and white British settlers and the far-reaching consequences for one Aboriginal girl coming of age in an unsteady and dangerous world.strongppFor all known time, Muraging's people, the Darug, have lived on this land between the river and the sea. But change comes swiftly in the early years of the nineteenth century when White settlers begin to arrive, laying claim to the continent, long inhabited by Aboriginal tribes like Muraging's, for the British empire. ppAt ten years old, Muraging is given over to the Parramatta Native School by her fath