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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... corroborees in those days . We'd all get together and have a good old corroboree . I can't explain to you how it made us feel inside . I loved the singing , sometimes we'd get a song and it'd last for days . Lily was a good singer , you ...
... corroborees in those days . We'd all get together and have a good old corroboree . I can't explain to you how it made us feel inside . I loved the singing , sometimes we'd get a song and it'd last for days . Lily was a good singer , you ...
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... corroborees every night , I think I'll go down there and tell them all off . ' I often sat and listened to it with her after that . I've never been to a corroboree , but that music had always been inside of me . When I was little , I ...
... corroborees every night , I think I'll go down there and tell them all off . ' I often sat and listened to it with her after that . I've never been to a corroboree , but that music had always been inside of me . When I was little , I ...
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... corroborees . Every Saturday afternoon , we played corroboree . We mixed the red sand with water and painted that on too . By the time we finished , you didn't know what colour we were . I ' member the kitchen on Corunna . There was a ...
... corroborees . Every Saturday afternoon , we played corroboree . We mixed the red sand with water and painted that on too . By the time we finished , you didn't know what colour we were . I ' member the kitchen on Corunna . There was a ...
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