Foreign Soil Quotes

“In this country, you look at a person, and you know them. It is the inside-out way the people of this country wear their soul. In their eyes you can find civilisations of honesty or sweeping fields of lies. It's taken some getting used to but now Asanka likes it - this casual unguardedness that comes from never really knowing fear.”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil

“Foreign Soil is dedicated to Australian fiction writers of colour: those who paved the path before me, and those for whom these clumsy feet will hopefully help smooth the way.”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil

“Millie was a dreamer, with the city in her sights”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil

“THE STILT FISHERMEN OF KATHALUWA”
― Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil