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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... gilgies * and insects all had to be returned alive and * gilgies - a small freshwater crayfish . ( Known in most parts of Australia as yabbies . ) well to their natural habitat . Nan influenced us greatly 67.
... gilgies * and insects all had to be returned alive and * gilgies - a small freshwater crayfish . ( Known in most parts of Australia as yabbies . ) well to their natural habitat . Nan influenced us greatly 67.
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... gilgies by hanging over an old stormwater drain and wriggling my fingers in the water . As soon as the gilgies latched on , it required only a quick flick of the wrist to land them , gasping , on the bank . I imagined myself as an ...
... gilgies by hanging over an old stormwater drain and wriggling my fingers in the water . As soon as the gilgies latched on , it required only a quick flick of the wrist to land them , gasping , on the bank . I imagined myself as an ...
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... gilgies . They were plentiful in the small pools and creeks around the Home . We caught them with a piece of old meat begged from the kitchen , and tied to a piece of string . It took only a few seconds after you'd dropped the string ...
... gilgies . They were plentiful in the small pools and creeks around the Home . We caught them with a piece of old meat begged from the kitchen , and tied to a piece of string . It took only a few seconds after you'd dropped the string ...
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