{"product_id":"crossing-the-creek","title":"Crossing the Creek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNavigating two worlds is never easy. On colonial Australia’s pastoral frontier, three lives intertwine in a story of dispossession, identity and belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwyla, an Aboriginal child separated from family and suffering memory loss, is forced to work as a domestic servant on a property in north-west NSW, where she takes refuge at the creek and finds a friend and protector in Gamilaraay station hand, Garruu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheep overseer Tom, an emancipist and former Kidderminster carpet weaver, alienated geographically and by the settler violence around him, hungers for family, friends and justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Garruu is wrongfully arrested, Twyla and Tom’s courage is tested as they stand up for justice in the face of intense racism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together a vivid sense of Country, and laced with Gamilaraay language, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Creek\u003c\/i\u003e is a love story between a man, a woman and a place, and also important truth-telling through fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46036610547903,"sku":"9781761636103","price":34.64,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/popweasel.co.nz\/products\/crossing-the-creek","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}