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"Dispersal" is a euphemism used in Australia to mean the massacre of Indigenous people. In the prologue of this historical novel, two missionaries discover the aftermath of the dispersal of a hundred Kurrong Australians. One of them, Reverend Bean, tells a judge that he saw a crater filled with bodies of people who were mutilated and then burnt. The story then turns to young Billy and Tommy McBride, brothers who survived the murder of their family and are still haunted by the trauma. Years afterward, Tommy and his friend Arthur...Log In or Sign Up to Read More