Showing My Place by Sally Morgan

Paperback. Pub the Date: October 1988 Pages: 360 in Publisher by: Virago Press Recounting experiences from travels back to her grandmother's birthplace and the this classic of Australian literature documents what started out as a tentative search for information about the author's family-and 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 truth-into which a whole family is gradually drawn-results in the freeing of tongues of the author's mother and grandmother. finally allowing them to tell their own stories. This powerful autobiography of three ...