Swallow the Air

When May's mother dies suddenly, her and her brother Billy's loss leaves them both searching for their place in the world. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets off to find her father and her Aboriginal identity.

Tara June Winch is an Australian writer based in France. She has written essays, short fiction and memoirs for Vogue, Vice, McSweeneys, and various Australian publications and anthologies. Her first novel, Swallow the Air, was published in 2006 and won numerous literary awards, including the David Unaipon Award and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. It has been on the education and HSC syllabus for Standard and Advanced English in Australia since 2009. In the same year she was awarded the International Rolex Mentor and Protégé Award that saw her work under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. tarajunewinch-twmb.format.com/