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My Place (hb)
by Sally Morgan
Price $35.00 
- About the Book
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‘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
- Award Winning, Biography & Autobiography, Indigenous Writing
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Edition
- 21st Anniversary Edition
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- Awards
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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 (110 x 180mm)
- Pages
- 496
- Height x Width mm
- 190 x 135
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From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things