Creating hope, but out of what? • Tanya Dalziell

Creating hope, but out of what? • Tanya Dalziell

Gail Jones’s eleventh novel, The Name of the Sister, opens with a freelance journalist, Angie, watching a catalogue of miseries on the evening news. Her attention is caught by two successive items that stay with her through the novel. In the first, an unnamed man in an unidentified but snowy place is unwillingly caught in a state of utter desolation at the sudden death of his family. The second shows a woman found on Wilyakali country, just outs…