My PlaceIn 1982 Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started out as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Placebeings with the experiences of Sally's own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds. It is a deeply moving account of a search for truth, into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. |
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Page 119
... Aunty Judy had said , but because Mum had the nerve to get someone from outside the family to speak to me . Mum walked around looking guilty for the rest of the afternoon . It wasn't only Mum and Aunty Judy , it was my Art teacher at ...
... Aunty Judy had said , but because Mum had the nerve to get someone from outside the family to speak to me . Mum walked around looking guilty for the rest of the afternoon . It wasn't only Mum and Aunty Judy , it was my Art teacher at ...
Page 195
... Aunty Judy's dawned , and was too beautiful a day for me to fail . Mum had agreed to drop me in Cottesloe , where Judy was now living , and mind the children while we had our talk . ' Can't I come , Mum ? ' Amber wailed as we pulled up ...
... Aunty Judy's dawned , and was too beautiful a day for me to fail . Mum had agreed to drop me in Cottesloe , where Judy was now living , and mind the children while we had our talk . ' Can't I come , Mum ? ' Amber wailed as we pulled up ...
Page 293
... Aunty Elsie's grandchildren to our own family . We explained how we thought everyone we were related to must be dead and how we couldn't believe she was really Uncle Albert's wife . Aunty told us that she'd been many years younger than ...
... Aunty Elsie's grandchildren to our own family . We explained how we thought everyone we were related to must be dead and how we couldn't believe she was really Uncle Albert's wife . Aunty told us that she'd been many years younger than ...
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