TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lui,Nakkiah
TI  - Black is the new white
SN  - 9781760527341 (paperback)
U1  - A822.4 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Lawyers
KW  - Drama
KW  - Christmas stories
KW  - Satire
KW  - Composers
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Women lawyers
KW  - Australian drama
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Aboriginal Australians
KW  - Legal drama
KW  - Families
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Interracial dating
KW  - Australia
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Australian
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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