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The Secret River
Ever wonder how a seemingly simple story about a guy trying to settle down turns into a messy tangle of land grabs, cultural clashes, and moral blind spots? Welcome to early colonial Australia, where the ‘new beginning’ was anything but clean. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River pulls no punches on how history’s ‘settlers’ wrestled with—and often ignored—the people already living there.
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