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My Place (hb)

by Sally Morgan

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About the Book

‘Sad and wise and funny … 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 Colour Purple.

In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother’s birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a 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.

Also available in paperback

Categories
Indigenous Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Award Winning
Publication Year
2008
Edition
21st Anniversay Edition
Publisher
Fremantle Press
Awards

Winner, Human Rights Award for Literature, 1987
Short listed, New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award, 1987
Winner, Order of Australia Book Prize, 1990

ISBN13
9 781921 36122 7
HB/PB
Hardback
Format
A Format (181mm x 110mm)
Pages
496
Height x Width mm
190 x 135
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