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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... Pinjarra Frank . Bob Coulson was another man who worked on the mission . He was a good man with a hammer . I used to watch him . If he saw any cats sneakin ' around the chicken house , he'd corner them and hit them on the head with a ...
... Pinjarra Frank . Bob Coulson was another man who worked on the mission . He was a good man with a hammer . I used to watch him . If he saw any cats sneakin ' around the chicken house , he'd corner them and hit them on the head with a ...
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... Pinjarra go . ' He was a good man , that contractor , but his house was close to the railway line and , all the time I'd been there , I'd been lookin ' over my shoulder , wonderin ' when the police would catch up with me . I decided to ...
... Pinjarra go . ' He was a good man , that contractor , but his house was close to the railway line and , all the time I'd been there , I'd been lookin ' over my shoulder , wonderin ' when the police would catch up with me . I decided to ...
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... Pinjarra Frank instead . I'll send you word when they've gone . ' McQuarie reckoned Pinjarra didn't work as hard as me . Thing was , they didn't want him , he was real black . They wanted me . Even though Pinjarra was older than me , I ...
... Pinjarra Frank instead . I'll send you word when they've gone . ' McQuarie reckoned Pinjarra didn't work as hard as me . Thing was , they didn't want him , he was real black . They wanted me . Even though Pinjarra was older than me , I ...
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