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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... wasn't afraid of work . Towards the end of three years with Hancock , I could see I wasn't getting anywhere . The hut was built by then , but I was still just getting me tucker , no money . I wasn't going nowhere . ' Hancock , ' I said ...
... wasn't afraid of work . Towards the end of three years with Hancock , I could see I wasn't getting anywhere . The hut was built by then , but I was still just getting me tucker , no money . I wasn't going nowhere . ' Hancock , ' I said ...
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... wasn't one family in Mulberry Farm that wasn't touched with polio . It was a terrible thing . I was worried you kids might get sick too . That's when I moved in . Gladdie couldn't walk , she was stuck in bed . There was no one to look ...
... wasn't one family in Mulberry Farm that wasn't touched with polio . It was a terrible thing . I was worried you kids might get sick too . That's when I moved in . Gladdie couldn't walk , she was stuck in bed . There was no one to look ...
Page 427
... wasn't around , Bill used to call me a bloody nigger . I know he had a bad time in the war , but he shouldn't have called me that . No one should call anyone a bloody nigger . I kept quiet ' bout that ' cause I didn't want to cause ...
... wasn't around , Bill used to call me a bloody nigger . I know he had a bad time in the war , but he shouldn't have called me that . No one should call anyone a bloody nigger . I kept quiet ' bout that ' cause I didn't want to cause ...
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