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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... thought . They don't give you a chance . The senior officer looked at me silently for a few minutes and then said , ' Well , Mrs Morgan . You are either telling the truth , or you're a very good actress ! ' I was amazed , still my ...
... thought . They don't give you a chance . The senior officer looked at me silently for a few minutes and then said , ' Well , Mrs Morgan . You are either telling the truth , or you're a very good actress ! ' I was amazed , still my ...
Page 257
... thought , why not ? I loaded up the truck , threw a tarp over the grog and drove to Nungarin . I spent the night in the hotel there . Everything was booked up to the pub in Mucka , my board and tucker . I was a white man then , not ...
... thought , why not ? I loaded up the truck , threw a tarp over the grog and drove to Nungarin . I spent the night in the hotel there . Everything was booked up to the pub in Mucka , my board and tucker . I was a white man then , not ...
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... thought it'd be good , goin ' to school . I thought I'd be somebody real important . My mother wanted me to learn to read and write like white people . Then she wanted me to come back and teach her . There was a lot of the older people ...
... thought it'd be good , goin ' to school . I thought I'd be somebody real important . My mother wanted me to learn to read and write like white people . Then she wanted me to come back and teach her . There was a lot of the older people ...
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