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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... Jill was starting school . I felt sure I would not be so lonely with her there . As we joined the small groups of children and parents walking to school that morning , I watched Jill curiously . She seemed neither excited nor daunted by ...
... Jill was starting school . I felt sure I would not be so lonely with her there . As we joined the small groups of children and parents walking to school that morning , I watched Jill curiously . She seemed neither excited nor daunted by ...
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... Jill walked back and plopped down on the verandah step . I watched as Mum smiled at her in exactly the same way she'd smiled at me the previous year . Jill grinned back . Mum had actually convinced her she was going to like school . She ...
... Jill walked back and plopped down on the verandah step . I watched as Mum smiled at her in exactly the same way she'd smiled at me the previous year . Jill grinned back . Mum had actually convinced her she was going to like school . She ...
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... Jill was unhappy with the idea . It took a few minutes before I summoned up enough courage to say , ' What's a boong ? ' ' A boong . You know , Aboriginal . God , of all things , we're Aboriginal ! ' ' Oh . ' I suddenly understood ...
... Jill was unhappy with the idea . It took a few minutes before I summoned up enough courage to say , ' What's a boong ? ' ' A boong . You know , Aboriginal . God , of all things , we're Aboriginal ! ' ' Oh . ' I suddenly understood ...
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