After ten years adrift in Europe running from things she’d rather forget and searching for something she cannot name, August Gondiwindi is called home for her grandfather’s memorial. She returns to the rural Australian town of Massacre Plains wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind, only to find trouble back home. Prosperous House, where her nan and pop have lived for decades raising their kids and then their grandkids, will be repossessed and destroyed by a mining company, leaving her nan with nothing—unless August can find a way to stop it.

Determined to make amends for leaving and to right history’s wrongs, August endeavors to save her family’s home and her ancestors’ land. But something is missing: a dictionary of the Wiradjuri language her grandfather was writing before he died that might hold the key to blocking the mine. Can she find it in time, and is she ready to face the truths it will uncover?

Told in three masterfully woven narratives, The Yield is a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous birthrights and an offering of hope for the future.