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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... worried about what I was going to tell them . Mum always worried about what to tell people . It was as if the truth was never adequate , or there was something to hide . She had been inventing stories and making exaggerated claims since ...
... worried about what I was going to tell them . Mum always worried about what to tell people . It was as if the truth was never adequate , or there was something to hide . She had been inventing stories and making exaggerated claims since ...
Page 353
... worried sick , anything could have happened to him . I knew he had blackouts . I sometimes wondered if he even knew where he'd been all that time . It got so bad that , in the end , I couldn't stand it , I took Sally and moved back in ...
... worried sick , anything could have happened to him . I knew he had blackouts . I sometimes wondered if he even knew where he'd been all that time . It got so bad that , in the end , I couldn't stand it , I took Sally and moved back in ...
Page 425
... worried sick . She never knew where he was . It was the grog , you see . The grog got the better of him . I'm not sayin ' he was a bad man . He had a hard time during the war . When Gladdie was carrying Billy , she got polio . There ...
... worried sick . She never knew where he was . It was the grog , you see . The grog got the better of him . I'm not sayin ' he was a bad man . He had a hard time during the war . When Gladdie was carrying Billy , she got polio . There ...
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