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The Hate Race

The Hate Race 1

Shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize

by Maxine Beneba Clarke
Paperback
Publication Date: 09/08/2016
Staff Pick
The Stella Prize
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Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing . . .

Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three bedroom blonde-brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids on her street.

Except for this one, glaring, inescapably obvious thing.

From one of Australia's most exciting writers, and the author of the multi-award-winning FOREIGN SOIL, comes THE HATE RACE: a powerful, funny, and at times devastating memoir about growing up black in white middle-class Australia.

ISBN:
9780733632280
9780733632280
Category:
Autobiography: general
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09-08-2016
Publisher:
Hachette Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
1st Edition
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
234x151x21mm
Weight:
0.37kg
Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is a widely published Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent and the author of the poetry collections Gil Scott Heron Is on Parole and Nothing Here Needs Fixing. Maxine's short fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in numerous publications including Overland, The Age, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and The Big Issue.

Her critically acclaimed short fiction collection Foreign Soil (2014) won the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2015, the 2015 Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, and Maxine was also named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists for 2015, as well as being shortlisted for the Matt Richell Award for New Writing at the 2015 ABIAs and the 2015 Stella Prize.

A collection of Maxine's poetry Carrying The World, her memoir The Hate Race and her first children's picture book The Patchwork Bike will be published in 2016.

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The Hate Race is Maxine Beneba Clarke’s brutally honest memoir, a follow up to Foreign Soil – the 2014 break-through fiction collection. The book catalogues Maxine’s youth surrounded by entrenched racism in suburban Australia. She steadily weaves the threads of her story building a picture of hate in society.

The book took me to a safe, familiar landscape and made me see it again through a different set of eyes. Maxine’s writing is linear and clear-sighted, she remains aware of her purpose and present with the childhood-self. This memoir is a striking example of how the most normal family life can be rendered unbearable by everyday ignorance and intolerance. The book is so straight-forward, which makes it all the more effective. Read it. Get your kids to read it, get your neighbour to read it and get your neighbour on the other side to read it.

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