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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... trying to plough without hitching up the horses . Things bad and we took three hundred head of cattle further north , trying to find better grazing and water . got It was July 1912 , miners were finding gold at Paynes Find then . There ...
... trying to plough without hitching up the horses . Things bad and we took three hundred head of cattle further north , trying to find better grazing and water . got It was July 1912 , miners were finding gold at Paynes Find then . There ...
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... tried not to look at Gladys as she explained things , because I was trying to keep a tight lid on my emotions . It wasn't that I would have minded crying , it was just that I knew if I began , I wouldn't be able to stop . It was the ...
... tried not to look at Gladys as she explained things , because I was trying to keep a tight lid on my emotions . It wasn't that I would have minded crying , it was just that I knew if I began , I wouldn't be able to stop . It was the ...
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... trying to buy white friends . It used to really upset me . There were so many things that I didn't understand , then ... tried to warn me about him . They said he was wild , sometimes crazy , but I didn't listen . The day after I'd met ...
... trying to buy white friends . It used to really upset me . There were so many things that I didn't understand , then ... tried to warn me about him . They said he was wild , sometimes crazy , but I didn't listen . The day after I'd met ...
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