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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... girls , and that the girl who was normally ahead of me was now two girls behind . I couldn't understand what had happened . Hadn't I woven an intricate pattern in a graceful and gentle manner ? I looked up , and to my dismay , realised ...
... girls , and that the girl who was normally ahead of me was now two girls behind . I couldn't understand what had happened . Hadn't I woven an intricate pattern in a graceful and gentle manner ? I looked up , and to my dismay , realised ...
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... girls were and the girls were moved to the west side of the mission . Funny thing was , they put Freddy Lockyer in with the white kids . He had fair hair and fair skin , but really , he was a white blackfella . He didn't want to go , he ...
... girls were and the girls were moved to the west side of the mission . Funny thing was , they put Freddy Lockyer in with the white kids . He had fair hair and fair skin , but really , he was a white blackfella . He didn't want to go , he ...
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... girls ! ' We'd cry , those brushes really hurt . Our crying always seemed to satisfy her , she'd leave , then . As soon as she left , the girls would throw the brushes away and let us play . It got that way that we'd start crying as ...
... girls ! ' We'd cry , those brushes really hurt . Our crying always seemed to satisfy her , she'd leave , then . As soon as she left , the girls would throw the brushes away and let us play . It got that way that we'd start crying as ...
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