A rollicking, comic novel that nimbly blends the realities of racial intolerance and smalltown prejudice. When the Blackouts' starplayer Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and eyeshadow, his mum's idle days at bingo are gone forever. Winner of the 2000 David Unaipon Award for unpublished Aboriginal writers.
Awards
Shortlisted for Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award 2002.