Black is the new white /
Lui, Nakkiah,
Black is the new white / Nakkiah Lui. - Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019. - xv, 189 pages ; 21 cm.
Foreword -- Dramatis Personae -- Notes -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Scene 6 -- Scene 7 -- Original cast and crew -- About the author.
Charlotte Gibson is a lawyer with a brilliant career ahead of her. As her father Ray says, she could be the next female Indigenous Waleed Aly. But she has other ideas. First of all, it's Christmas. Second of all, she's in love. The thing is, her fiance, Francis Smith, is not what her family expected - he's unemployed, he's an experimental composer ... and he's white! Bringing him and his conservative parents to meet her family on their ancestral land is a bold move. Will he stand up to the scrutiny? Or will this romance descend into farce? Love is never just black and white. It's complicated by class, politics, ambition, and too much wine over dinner. But for Charlotte and Francis, it's mostly complicated by family. Secrets are revealed, prejudices outed and old rivalries get sorted through. What can't be solved through diplomacy can surely be solved by a good old-fashioned dance-off. They're just that kind of family. Award-winning writer Nakkiah Lui shows why she is one of this country's most in-demand young voices, delivering cutting satire that is both seductively subversive and thoroughly delightful.
9781760527341 (paperback)
be2019003497
Lawyers--Drama.
Christmas stories.
Satire.
Composers.
Indigenous peoples.
Women lawyers.
Australian drama--21st century.
Aboriginal Australians--Drama.
Legal drama.
Families--Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Interracial dating--Drama.
Drama.
Australia--Race relations--Drama.
Australian
Satire
Drama
Satire.
Drama.
A822.4
Black is the new white / Nakkiah Lui. - Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019. - xv, 189 pages ; 21 cm.
Foreword -- Dramatis Personae -- Notes -- Scene 1 -- Scene 2 -- Scene 3 -- Scene 4 -- Scene 5 -- Scene 6 -- Scene 7 -- Original cast and crew -- About the author.
Charlotte Gibson is a lawyer with a brilliant career ahead of her. As her father Ray says, she could be the next female Indigenous Waleed Aly. But she has other ideas. First of all, it's Christmas. Second of all, she's in love. The thing is, her fiance, Francis Smith, is not what her family expected - he's unemployed, he's an experimental composer ... and he's white! Bringing him and his conservative parents to meet her family on their ancestral land is a bold move. Will he stand up to the scrutiny? Or will this romance descend into farce? Love is never just black and white. It's complicated by class, politics, ambition, and too much wine over dinner. But for Charlotte and Francis, it's mostly complicated by family. Secrets are revealed, prejudices outed and old rivalries get sorted through. What can't be solved through diplomacy can surely be solved by a good old-fashioned dance-off. They're just that kind of family. Award-winning writer Nakkiah Lui shows why she is one of this country's most in-demand young voices, delivering cutting satire that is both seductively subversive and thoroughly delightful.
9781760527341 (paperback)
be2019003497
Lawyers--Drama.
Christmas stories.
Satire.
Composers.
Indigenous peoples.
Women lawyers.
Australian drama--21st century.
Aboriginal Australians--Drama.
Legal drama.
Families--Drama.
Man-woman relationships.
Interracial dating--Drama.
Drama.
Australia--Race relations--Drama.
Australian
Satire
Drama
Satire.
Drama.
A822.4
