The Joneses were the sole Aboriginal family living in the suburb of Perth where ” grew up. Not well liked by their neighbors, likely at least in part due to racism, the Joneses largely kept to themselves; the narrator always found them “angry.” Once, the Joneses hit the narrator’s brother, prompting a lifelong animosity in his brother toward other Aboriginal people. Ironically, the Joneses are the only old residents remaining upon the narrator’s return; in an even dark twist of fate, he arrives as they are being evicted.