In an Aboriginal town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an eco-crisis and a gathering of the ancestors, Cause Man Steel is chasing a vision to futureproof his people-while his son, Aboriginal Sovereignty, commits suicide. Exhilarating, magnetic, shattering the limits of allegory and fiction, Praiseworthy is an epic for the end of days.

Alexis Wright, a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, is one of Australia's most acclaimed and fearless writers. Wright is the only author to win Australia's two most prestigious prizes, the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker).