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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... boys reached adolescence , they were completely separated from the girls and put in a nearby orphanage . I suppose they were worried we might chase them . After a while , the bigger boys started running away to Moora . They were brought ...
... boys reached adolescence , they were completely separated from the girls and put in a nearby orphanage . I suppose they were worried we might chase them . After a while , the bigger boys started running away to Moora . They were brought ...
Page 239
... boys that are wanted by the police , aren't you ? ' he said . He had his hand on my shoulder . I wondered what he was going to do with us . He looked us over real good and then said , ' Right boys , you see that building over there ...
... boys that are wanted by the police , aren't you ? ' he said . He had his hand on my shoulder . I wondered what he was going to do with us . He looked us over real good and then said , ' Right boys , you see that building over there ...
Page 313
... boys used to kill the really big black snakes . One day when I was on my own , I found some fieldmice under a rock near a honeysuckle vine . I often went to that vine , because the flowers were sweet to suck . It was almost as good as ...
... boys used to kill the really big black snakes . One day when I was on my own , I found some fieldmice under a rock near a honeysuckle vine . I often went to that vine , because the flowers were sweet to suck . It was almost as good as ...
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