Winnie Dunn’s debut novel Dirt Poor Islanders is an impassioned response to detrimental stereotypes

By Jessica Gildersleeve, Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland

Winnie 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 unfamiliar readership. The title of her novel is a direct echo of Kwan’s. But where Crazy Rich Asians reworks familiar Western views…

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