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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... mother around . I used to cry for my mother when she was in a fight . I'd run round and grab her skirts and try and protect her from Ginnie . Ginnie only had one child by Howden , and that was my half - brother Albert . My mother was ...
... mother around . I used to cry for my mother when she was in a fight . I'd run round and grab her skirts and try and protect her from Ginnie . Ginnie only had one child by Howden , and that was my half - brother Albert . My mother was ...
Page 329
... mother always gave them clothes and shoes , whatever she could find . When they left , she'd have tears in her eyes . It hurt her to see her own people living like that . At Christmas , I also went to Ivanhoe . We'd all sleep out on the ...
... mother always gave them clothes and shoes , whatever she could find . When they left , she'd have tears in her eyes . It hurt her to see her own people living like that . At Christmas , I also went to Ivanhoe . We'd all sleep out on the ...
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... mother that lie ? Why do white people tell so many lies ? I got nothin ' out of their promises . My mother wouldn't have let me go just to work . God will make them pay for their lies . He's got people like that under the whip . They ...
... mother that lie ? Why do white people tell so many lies ? I got nothin ' out of their promises . My mother wouldn't have let me go just to work . God will make them pay for their lies . He's got people like that under the whip . They ...
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