Right Story, Wrong Story: How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell [Hardcover]

Continuing the work of the award-winningSand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, using powerful Indigenous thinking to challenge us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track.

WithRight Story, Wrong Story,Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far north Queensland, tackles the divisions that prevent us from talking to one another. Drawing on deep Aboriginal knowledge, Yunkaporta invites us to confront lifes biggest questions and arms us with the tools we need to really listen, and to open our minds to change based upon our connections with others. He makes this point through discussions with a diverse range of people across social and political divides including:

• liberal economists
• memorization experts
• Frisian ecologists
• and Elders who are wood carvers, mathematicians, and storytellers.

Building upon the Indigenous tradition of yarning to weave our individual narratives into the great narrative that includes us all across any and all differences, Yunkaporta argues that story is at the heart of everything. But what is right or wrong story?

“Sand Talk unpacks for us something originally genius about Indigenous thought, which has for too long been dismissed as archaic folk knowledge from old oral cultures of interest only to academics and fetishists. This book shows how vital and alive and essential Indigenous ways of being and thinking are. Yunkaporta is so smart, funny, and accessible. Everyone needs to read this.” -Tommy Orange, bestselling author of?There There, on Sand Talk

“An astonishing revelation of ancient Aboriginal wisdom as it applies to science and modern times. It’s one of the best books I ever read, and I’ve been reading books for 80 years. There’s nothing like it. It leaves you gasping. If you care about yourself, thlC¯