Mark Clendon

The Hulukutu Bird Mark Clendon

Abandoning a truck-driver in the night, a recovering addict is plunged into a violent illness. He emerges among bewildering people: a woman who wakes in him a longing for what cannot be regained; an old man struggling to save his daughter; a brother who is no brother fighting to recover his wife and child; an orphan betrayed and broken in an alien world; with these he is precipitated into the roots of our entanglement with alcohol and drugs. Set in 1980s Victoria and southern Poland seven thousand years ago, The Húlukùtu Bird chronicles the impact on people with a hunting and gathering economy of changes brought by people with an agricultural economy.