The Yield by Tara June Winch

August Gondiwindi comes home to Australia from England after her grandfather, Albert, passes away. Her Aboriginal family has lived along the Murrumby River in rural New South Wales for many generations. Even though she's been gone for ten years, August finds not much has changed, except that a mining company has taken over a lot of the local land which is forcing August's grandmother, Elsie to move. The Yield recounts August's memories of growing up and the trauma of her sister, Jedda, going missing when they were young--never to be seen again. In addition, the story of Albert's life is told through the use of a dictionary, in which he was compiling words in the native Wiradjuri language. A third point of view in the novel is from German Reverend Ferdinand Greenleaf who lived in the area for over thirty years, beginning at the end of the 19th century. A novel of injustice and brutality that reminds us again of the wrongs that white Australia has perpetuated on its native people.