When Albert “Poppy” Gondiwindi knows his time is short, he begins one final task: preserving the Wiradjuri language and the memory of his people through a dictionary. Each word carries the weight of tradition, of resistance, of home.
After his death, his granddaughter August returns to Massacre Plains, where grief collides with memory and the scars of dispossession. A mining company is set to claim her family’s land, and buried in Poppy’s words may be the only way to stop it.
Told in three interwoven narratives, The Yield is a stunning, award-winning novel about reclaiming what has been stolen—land, language, and legacy. Tara June Winch delivers a lyrical, powerful exploration of Indigenous identity, loss, and the enduring force of ancestral knowledge.
