Right Story, Wrong Story, Tyson Yunkaporta
Right Story, Wrong Story, Tyson Yunkaporta
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Right Story, Wrong Story
How to Have Fearless Conversations in Hell

Author: Tyson Yunkaporta

Narrator: Tyson Yunkaporta

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/04/2025


Synopsis

Continuing the work of the award-winning Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta casts an Indigenous lens on contemporary society, challenging us to face conflict and embrace conversation to find our way onto the right track. With Right Story, Wrong Story, Apalech Clan member Tyson Yunkaporta, from far north Queensland, tackles the divisions that prevent us from talking to one another. Yunkaporta invites us to confront life’s 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 economistsmemorization expertsFrisian ecologistsand 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?

About Tyson Yunkaporta

Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, arts critic, researcher, and member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, winner of the Small Publishers’ Adult Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Ansari Institute’s Randa and Sherif Nasr Book Prize on Religion & the World, awarded to an author who explores global issues using Indigenous perspectives. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Varó on April 03, 2025

This book felt like a Hieronymus Bosch painting in a rant format. It's beautifully saturated, intense, angry and gentle at the same time. Or like an Arthouse movie that doesn't have a plot that you could describe to someone you'd recommend it to, but you definitely would want them to watch it. Or lik......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 27, 2025

This is an excellent read which explores many issues plaguing our society, many of which boil down to misinformation and the narrative. Yson Yunkaporta explores each of issues through a variety of angles, all of which feel personal and authentic. The most interesting thing Yunkaporta brings is an In......more

Goodreads review by Relena_reads on April 06, 2025

When the conceit of this book works, it's fantastic, but there are definitely points where Yunkaporta is forcing the narrative into the frame which start to feel like unintentional wrong story. The overall framing of right story/wrong story works fairly well, though, and Yunkaporta is--as always--re......more