A review by isigfethera
Where the Fruit Falls by Karen Wyld

2.0

Disappointed with this one. The writing was fairly flat and the characters very two dimensional. I was interested in the blurbs description of a 60s and 70s Australian setting with the changes to civil rights and land rights, but these all seemed to be dealt with very glancingly. It felt more like the book was addressing racism from a very 21st century point of view, but again not with a lot of depth, and at times this felt anachronistic (I don’t think people were discussing microaggressions in the 60s). The book covers quite a bit of time and space, and a large number of characters, but as a result I don’t think it really does any of them justice. I did like the magic realism.