Craft for a Dry Lake by Kim Mahood

Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for non-fiction
Winner of The Age Book of the Year Award for non-fiction
Winner of The Dobbie Prize for Best First Book

A lyrical memoir from a first-time author that has won critical acclaim Australia-wide. Kim offers an intense and sensitive exploration of identity, familial ties and black/white relations in Australia. Kim travels with her beloved cattle dog into the Outback of her youth, seeking to lay to rest her father's ghost, but finding herself faced with many of her own.