Winnie Dunn’s debut novel Dirt Poor Islanders is an impassioned response to detrimental stereotypes
- Written by: Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
Uoleva Island, TongaNina Janesikova/ShutterstockWinnie Dunn’s first novel, Dirt Poor Islanders, takes as its epigraph a line from Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians (2013): “Remember, every treasure comes with a price.”
Like Kwan, Dunn has made it her project to bring a more sensitive intercultural understanding to an...