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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... verandah . If we walked around the verandah , she liked to hold my hand . We always stuck together , if there were two of you , the others didn't pick on you so much . After school , the older girls would come back and carry me around ...
... verandah . If we walked around the verandah , she liked to hold my hand . We always stuck together , if there were two of you , the others didn't pick on you so much . After school , the older girls would come back and carry me around ...
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... verandah that day . I asked the others if they'd seen her , they said she was sick and had been taken to hospital . I felt very sad . A few weeks after that , when I was playing on the verandah by myself , she just appeared out of ...
... verandah that day . I asked the others if they'd seen her , they said she was sick and had been taken to hospital . I felt very sad . A few weeks after that , when I was playing on the verandah by myself , she just appeared out of ...
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... verandah . There were all sorts of noises that frightened me . The old canvas blinds would creak against their rope moorings , the nightbirds called to one another , and you often heard the wings of some large bird flapping past . My ...
... verandah . There were all sorts of noises that frightened me . The old canvas blinds would creak against their rope moorings , the nightbirds called to one another , and you often heard the wings of some large bird flapping past . My ...
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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