Universally acclaimed as an Australian classic, My Place now available in an attractive gift edition is a powerful and deeply moving memoir of three generations of the author's family, told with passion, compassion and great humor. --- "My Place moved me several times to tears. This sad and wise and funny book is of inestimable value in comprehending the relatedness of the global community. Unbelievably and unexpectedly moving, Sally Morgan's love for her own spiritual and racial roots and her struggle to uncover them ...
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Universally acclaimed as an Australian classic, My Place now available in an attractive gift edition is a powerful and deeply moving memoir of three generations of the author's family, told with passion, compassion and great humor. --- "My Place moved me several times to tears. This sad and wise and funny book is of inestimable value in comprehending the relatedness of the global community. Unbelievably and unexpectedly moving, Sally Morgan's love for her own spiritual and racial roots and her struggle to uncover them reveals a new Australia (the old) and a new way to embrace the elders and the young of all our peoples, wherever (and whoever) they might be. A book with heart." ~ Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple --- "A book for everyone: a book with the form and texture of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages. It is wonderfully entertaining." ~ New York Times Book Review --- "Funny and sad and very real: a satisfying, absorbing b
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New York. 1988. Seaver/Henry Holt. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0805009116. 368 pages. hardcover. keywords: Australia Women Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER-This is a historical document which should be on every black studies and women's studies course in Australia and round the world. It is also a book of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages. This powerful autobiography of three generations of Aborigines by one of their own is an 'historical document which should be on every black studies and women's studies course round the world. a wonderfully luminous and entertaining prose poem. '-New York Times. inventory #10680.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x6x1; Binding firm, interior clean and unmarked. In very good DJ. A powerful autobiography of three generations of Australian aborigine women. This exploration of cultural and self identity was a best-seller in Australia. 360pp. 1st US ed.
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Growing up, Sally was told that her tan complexion was due to family ties to India, but later finds out that her Grandmother is Aboriginal. She sets out to find her true roots and uncovers the truth about the treatment of the Aboriginal population in her grandmothers life.