Jesustown challenges Australia's neat and tidy story-fied approach to history by contending directly with our messy, ugly, not-so-distant past. First and foremost, it deconstructs the myth of the white saviour. It does all this with a surprising amount of nuance and a strong narrative voice that kept me engaged all the way through, even when the pacing got a little bit wonky. It was an intriguing and of course thought-provoking read, and the most "readable" book I've picked up in quite a while.