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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... suddenly very unsure of my place in the world . I still ate with the family in the dining room , but I felt like an outsider , especially when Alice would ring a little brass bell and my mother would come in and wait on us . I suddenly ...
... suddenly very unsure of my place in the world . I still ate with the family in the dining room , but I felt like an outsider , especially when Alice would ring a little brass bell and my mother would come in and wait on us . I suddenly ...
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... suddenly leap into the air , shouting , ' Hallelujah brother , Praise the Lord ! ' A lot of people started gathering ... suddenly felt a dig in my back and a voice said , ' Now ! ' I found myself suddenly yanked from the circle and ...
... suddenly leap into the air , shouting , ' Hallelujah brother , Praise the Lord ! ' A lot of people started gathering ... suddenly felt a dig in my back and a voice said , ' Now ! ' I found myself suddenly yanked from the circle and ...
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... suddenly as though he was his old self , as though he'd been released from something . We talked about the children and we laughed . Bill said he hadn't felt so good in a long time . He said he knew tomorrow would be a new beginning for ...
... suddenly as though he was his old self , as though he'd been released from something . We talked about the children and we laughed . Bill said he hadn't felt so good in a long time . He said he knew tomorrow would be a new beginning for ...
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