Swallow the Air

Tara June Winch

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9780702270826
• Edition: 4

When May' s mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their loss leaves them both searching for their place in a world that doesn' t seem to want them. While Billy takes his own destructive path, May sets out to find her father and her Aboriginal identity. Her journey leads her from the Australian east coast to the far north, but it is the people she meets, not the destinations, that teach her what it is to belong. Swallow the Air is an unforgettable story of living in a torn world and finding the thread to help sew it back together.

Table of contents

• Author Biography
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Introduction by Yasmin Smith
• Swallow the Air
• Grab
• Cloud Busting
• My Bleeding Palm
• Bushfire
• Leaving Paradise
• To Run
• Territory
• The Block
• Chocolate
• Wantok
• Painted Dreaming
• Mapping Waterglass
• Just Dust
• Cocoon
• Bila Snake
• Mission
• Country
• The Jacaranda Tree
• Home
• Acknowledgements
• Imprint Page