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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... you're not ! You're just a stupid old blackfella , that's you ! ' Arthur was incensed . Raising his voice , he said , ' You're a great one to talk . Here I am in my nineties and I can read the paper and write my own name , too . I been ...
... you're not ! You're just a stupid old blackfella , that's you ! ' Arthur was incensed . Raising his voice , he said , ' You're a great one to talk . Here I am in my nineties and I can read the paper and write my own name , too . I been ...
Page 218
... you're talking to , not some stranger off the street ! You think I can't tell when you're hiding things ? I know you too well . I want you to tell me what it was like . ' ' I told you before , Sally , ' she said in a very annoyed way ...
... you're talking to , not some stranger off the street ! You think I can't tell when you're hiding things ? I know you too well . I want you to tell me what it was like . ' ' I told you before , Sally , ' she said in a very annoyed way ...
Page 270
... you're chasin ' the wind . You go up there and the cyclone'll get you . ' Just then , Mum entered the fray . All this time , she'd been quietly observing Nan's reaction . ' Nan's right , Sally , ' she said , much to Nan's surprise ...
... you're chasin ' the wind . You go up there and the cyclone'll get you . ' Just then , Mum entered the fray . All this time , she'd been quietly observing Nan's reaction . ' Nan's right , Sally , ' she said , much to Nan's surprise ...
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