My Place

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Publisher Place: Fremantle
Publisher Year: 1987
Edition: Reprint

Description: 355 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Morgan is 15 when she discovers that she is not white but aborigine - a fact that has been kept secret because of societys stigma. Rather than tell the children about their heritage, her mother and grandmother have let them believe early ancestors emigrated to Australia from India. The teen-aged Morgan, having been an indifferent student at best, throws herself into her studies and then single-mindedly embarks on a search for her roots. Her quest is hampered by her grandmothers refusal to discuss the past but helped by an elderly great uncle, who is an accomplished raconteur, and leads her to the past and to other people. Morgan is a gifted storyteller, and this story is sad, triumphant, hilarious, and sensitive." - Library JournalIn 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmothers 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 authors mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.

ISBN: 9780949206244