Matriarch
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Powerful and unforgettable.At the beginning of the twentieth century, the son of an English lord settles in Australia and marries an indigenous woman. It is an age when interracial relationships are not only misunderstood, but result in family conflict, disgrace, and disinheritance.Then the Christian missionaries come. They destroy the timeless culture and beliefs of Australias indigenous people, leaving them to flounder in a soup of the white mans religious beliefs. The great-grandmothers telling of the family story is the nourishment that holds it together through war, and the constant battle to adjust and exist in a white mans world. The Christian missionaries will not tolerate any belief or view other than their own.Amid all this religious and racial conflict, the great-grandchildren adjust and eventually prosper. The young man distinguishes himself in the conflict in Vietnam, while his sister finds her place and flourishes in the food and catering industry.From the Boer War through two World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the last decades of the twentieth century, Matriarch takes readers on an eye-opening journey through Australian history, culminating in a serial murder mystery that opens old family wounds.Author Geoffrey Hope Gibsons historical sweep of Australias past is as broad as James A. Micheners. His style is reminiscent of Richard Llewellyns depictions of Wales and Argentina, and his depiction of Aborigine mistreatment rivals the most frightening moments in Tayeb Salihs classic postcolonial novel Season of Migration to the North.Matriarch is a captivating story that will take readers through time within the aboriginal heart in Australia, and feel the raw truth of their history and social evolution to current times. A Must Read!--Susan Violante, Managing Editor of Reader Views, and author of Innocent WarThis sprawling epic tale of love, marriage, injustice, ancestors, misguided religion, grief, rage, and murder is a testament to how t
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