Synopses & Reviews
Recounting experiences from travels back to her grandmother's birthplace, this classic of Australian literature documents what started out as a tentative search for information about the author's familyand turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. Unearthing political and societal issues contained within Australia's indigenous culture, this moving account of a search for truthinto which a whole family is gradually drawnresults in the freeing of tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, finally allowing them to tell their own stories.
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"Funny and sad and very real: a satisfying and absorbing book, a unique record." Pittburgh Press
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"A triumphant story that makes you glad its been told." Times on Sunday
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"Sad and wise and funny . . . unbelievably and unexpectedly moving, Sally Morgans 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, The Color Purple
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"A moving and quite remarkable account of personal discovery." Sydney Morning Herald
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"One of the most significant milestones in Aboriginal literature." Australian Magazine
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"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
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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
About the Author
Sally Morgan is an artist and the author of the award-winning Heartsick for Country.