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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... We'd spent the May holidays playing down the swamp and visiting Dad in hospital . Now , we were halfway through the August holidays and we'd given up all hope of the picnic ever eventuating . So we were very surprised when , one sunny ...
... We'd spent the May holidays playing down the swamp and visiting Dad in hospital . Now , we were halfway through the August holidays and we'd given up all hope of the picnic ever eventuating . So we were very surprised when , one sunny ...
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... We'd all get bread and slices of meat . We'd poke our billies through that little window and get tea too . If Moody Sam didn't cook , we'd get slices of mutton , make a fire outside and cook it ourselves . For extra meat , my people ...
... We'd all get bread and slices of meat . We'd poke our billies through that little window and get tea too . If Moody Sam didn't cook , we'd get slices of mutton , make a fire outside and cook it ourselves . For extra meat , my people ...
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... We'd sniff and say , ' Aah , something ripe in there , somewhere . ' We'd lift up all the bushes looking for them , they were only tiny . When we found them , we'd say , ' Hmmmmn , mingimullas , good old mingimullas . ' I never tasted ...
... We'd sniff and say , ' Aah , something ripe in there , somewhere . ' We'd lift up all the bushes looking for them , they were only tiny . When we found them , we'd say , ' Hmmmmn , mingimullas , good old mingimullas . ' I never tasted ...
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