My Place
Registered by WormyOne of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on 12/1/2005
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Journal Entry 1 by WormyOne from Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Thursday, December 1, 2005
The blurb reads:
"In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmother's birthplace, Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. What started as a tentative search for information about her forbears turned into an extraordinary emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Sally and her family were confronted with their own surpressed history, and with fundamental questions about their identity. Through memories and images of growing up in Perth in the fifties and sixties, hints and echoes emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - the mystery of her Aboriginal identity. The momentum of her narrative in turn sparks responses in her great-uncle, her mother and, finally, her grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. My Place is a powerful autobiography of three generations, a poignant yet often humorous account of a search for truth into which a whole family is drawn".
This was highly recommended to me by a friend and I read it over ten years ago. I can't remember it well enough to give a detailed review but I remember not being as moved by it as my friend was. I'm not a big fan of (auto)biographies though so that might be partly why.
"In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmother's birthplace, Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. What started as a tentative search for information about her forbears turned into an extraordinary emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Sally and her family were confronted with their own surpressed history, and with fundamental questions about their identity. Through memories and images of growing up in Perth in the fifties and sixties, hints and echoes emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - the mystery of her Aboriginal identity. The momentum of her narrative in turn sparks responses in her great-uncle, her mother and, finally, her grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. My Place is a powerful autobiography of three generations, a poignant yet often humorous account of a search for truth into which a whole family is drawn".
This was highly recommended to me by a friend and I read it over ten years ago. I can't remember it well enough to give a detailed review but I remember not being as moved by it as my friend was. I'm not a big fan of (auto)biographies though so that might be partly why.
Journal Entry 2 by WormyOne at Phone box, King's Road/B'wick Sq in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom on Thursday, December 1, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (12/1/2005 UTC) at Phone box, King's Road/B'wick Sq in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom
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