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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... night . It was a strange thing , because he'd told me how important it was to be free , and I knew that Australia was a free country , but Dad wasn't free . There were things in his head that wouldn't go away . Sometimes , I had the ...
... night . It was a strange thing , because he'd told me how important it was to be free , and I knew that Australia was a free country , but Dad wasn't free . There were things in his head that wouldn't go away . Sometimes , I had the ...
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... night . As I grew older , I realised it was Aboriginal music , like some blackfellas were having a corroboree just for me . It was very beautiful music . I only heard it at night when I was feeling depressed . After I'd heard it , I ...
... night . As I grew older , I realised it was Aboriginal music , like some blackfellas were having a corroboree just for me . It was very beautiful music . I only heard it at night when I was feeling depressed . After I'd heard it , I ...
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... night ? ' she said . ' They been having 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 ...
... night ? ' she said . ' They been having 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 ...
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