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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Page 226
... sleep . Next thing I knew , I got a smack in the face . They were all singin ' out ' TAR ! TAR ! ' and I was asleep . When the girls brought down the dishes of cakes and buckets of tea , I made sure I was there . I wasn't going to sleep ...
... sleep . Next thing I knew , I got a smack in the face . They were all singin ' out ' TAR ! TAR ! ' and I was asleep . When the girls brought down the dishes of cakes and buckets of tea , I made sure I was there . I wasn't going to sleep ...
Page 308
... sleep . It was that same feeling of protection . I suppose it was healthy , sleeping on the verandah like that , but on wintry nights when there was lightning and thunder , and the rain poured in , it was really scary . Of course they ...
... sleep . It was that same feeling of protection . I suppose it was healthy , sleeping on the verandah like that , but on wintry nights when there was lightning and thunder , and the rain poured in , it was really scary . Of course they ...
Page 410
... sleep on the homestead verandah . Some nights , it was real cold , one blanket was too thin . On nights like that , the natives used to bring wool from the shearing shed and lay that beneath them . I didn't mind sleeping on the verandah ...
... sleep on the homestead verandah . Some nights , it was real cold , one blanket was too thin . On nights like that , the natives used to bring wool from the shearing shed and lay that beneath them . I didn't mind sleeping on the verandah ...
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Aboriginal allowed Arthur asked began better Bill Billy boys called close Corunna couldn't decided didn't door eyes face father feel felt finally finished friends front gave girls give gone hand happened hard head heard hospital inside it's Jill keep kids knew later laughed leave live look loved mean mind Miss morning mother moved Mum's Nan's needed never night once passed past play pulled remember replied round Sally seemed sick sister sleep someone Sometimes soon stay stop story suddenly sure talk tell there's things thought told took trying turned verandah waiting walked wasn't watched week wonderful worried wrong