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 245
... things I hadn't seen before . I met a bloke there , Jack Gollan was his name . He was an announcer at the races and owned delivery stables in Northam . He used to come and talk a lot to me after we met . He wanted me to work for him too ...
... things I hadn't seen before . I met a bloke there , Jack Gollan was his name . He was an announcer at the races and owned delivery stables in Northam . He used to come and talk a lot to me after we met . He wanted me to work for him too ...
Page 348
... things to me , especially about the past and where she'd come from . It was hopeless , we'd been apart too long to get really close . I knew she loved me and I loved her , but , for all my childhood , she had been just a person I saw on ...
... things to me , especially about the past and where she'd come from . It was hopeless , we'd been apart too long to get really close . I knew she loved me and I loved her , but , for all my childhood , she had been just a person I saw on ...
Page 428
... things passed down to you from Gladdie and me . Things that you only got ' cause we was black . I tried to stay out the way after Bill died . Gladdie could pass for anythin ' . You only had to look at me to see I was a native . We had ...
... things passed down to you from Gladdie and me . Things that you only got ' cause we was black . I tried to stay out the way after Bill died . Gladdie could pass for anythin ' . You only had to look at me to see I was a native . We had ...
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