Members Book Club: Stone Sky Gold Mountain (2020)
When
3.00 – 4.00pm, Wed 12 Oct 2022About
Discuss art, life, culture and creativity from the comfort of your own home at the QAGOMA Members Virtual Book Club or join us at one of the meetings at the Gallery. From September to November, titles on the reading list will connect to, contextualise and complement ideas presented in ‘Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art.’
‘Stone Sky Gold Mountain’ (2020) by Mirandi Riwoe
- Session 1: Wed 12 Oct 3.00pm | Virtual
- Session 2: Thu 13 Oct 10.30am | Member’s Lounge, QAG
- Session 3: Sat 29 Oct 3.00pm | Member’s Lounge, QAG
Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue gets a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying finds work in a local store and strikes up a friendship with Meriem, a young white woman with her own troubled past. When a serious crime is committed, suspicion falls on all those who are considered outsiders. Evoking the rich, unfolding tapestry of Australian life in the late nineteenth century, Stone Sky Gold Mountain is a heartbreaking and universal story about the exiled and displaced, about those who encounter discrimination yet yearn for acceptance.
- Virtual Book Club: Free for Members / $5 for Members’ guests
- On-site Book Club: $12 Members / $17 Members’ guests
September – November Reading List
- Another Day in the Colony (2021) by Chelsea Watego
- Stone Sky Gold Mountain (2020) by Mirandi Riwoe
- Biting the Clouds (2020) by Fiona Foley
Members receive 20% off current and past Book Club titles from the QAGOMA Store.