A review of “Wild Song” by Candy Gourlay, published by David Fickling Books (UK)
'Wild Song' would be the stuff of fantasy if it weren’t based on the appalling true story of the Saint Louis World’s Fair, a human zoo for trafficked tribal Filipinos.
The story of Luki’s adventures in the exotic new land with all its opportunities and injustices is told in an affectionate internal conversation with her dead mother, a clever device that allows the narrator to share her truest feelings as well as convey the outsize role of their deceased ancestors in everyday life.
Widely praised in the mainstream press there, “Wild Song” portrays colonized people as having agency, while it introduces to a general audience an obscure, despicable episode of colonization.
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