Her previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin and this one has been long listed this year and widely praised. I gave up on it about a third of the way through because I just couldn't bear to wade through any more of this mess. I kept thinking the problem was mine and I should just keep on going and I would eventually find it rewarding, but no. It's the kind of thing I thought I would like: an indigenous perspective on a dystopian near future Australia, but I thought the writing was just horrible. In the interests of fairness for anyone else who might be interested in writing from acclaimed Indigenous Australian writers, here is a glowing review from the Sydney Review of Books: http://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/going-viral/