The Family Made of Dust Anniversary Edition: A Novel of Loss and Rebirth in the Australian Outback : Sun Dogs Creations : 9781946732576 : 1946732575 : 18 Aug 2017 : WINNER OF TWO NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS TOP SELECTION FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "One of the best novels in ten years." Hackney Literary Awards Committee Destined to become the next The Book Thief. For fans of Small Great Things, Before We Were Yours, and Orphan Train, and viewers of "Mystery Road" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock." In this thrilling debut novel ranked alongside Pulitzer Prize winners William Styron and Horton Foote, a gripping search for a missing friend unearths the price one boy paid for brutal adoption policies. Gabriel Branch is a man displaced. Having lost his boyhood family to a government's attempt at genocide, his emotions balance on a razor's edge. Then his best friend disappears in the vast Australian desert. The only clue is an Aboriginal artifact that leads Gabe back to the land of his birth.