Lucashenko’s is a rare and powerful voice a woman who has been both poor and rich many times, with a lived understanding about the fickleness of each state: “I drew on a lifelong study of Buddhism and I said to myself, ‘You’re poor again, so what? Suck it up. What they do is nothing compared to what has been done to them, of course. The characters you’re rooting for steal, bash each other up, damage property and animals and “illegally” trespass. Our protagonist wears a balaclava and raids the local council offices. In Too Much Lip, a meat pie is a savoured luxury, and the height of generosity is when a policeman buys you two. Photograph: LaVonne Bobongie WallĪs for her inspirations, she cited Once Were Warriors and The Beverley Hillbillies, “a show that made a lot of sense to me when growing up.” This reminded me of the late Andrea Levy, the award-winning Jamaican-British author who said that she spent most of her childhood watching television in a council estate, and this formed her literary and cultural influences.
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