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What an amazing book. I haven‘t been as angry, ashamed, or cried as much reading a book as I have for a long time. A story of the cruelty and stupidity of society, both in the past and to this day, besides the strength and enduring love still given by those marginalized by it.

#LitsyHumor post 2! 😆 Pretty much!

Sally Morgan is part Aboriginal, but this was kept from her out of fear and shame until her 20s. She then set out to learn more about her roots and family. Parts of this were a slog for me, but her quest and her mother‘s story were quite affecting. It‘s a bit shocking to me how recently people were enslaved in Australia.

#Booked2020 Parent/child memoir
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Some more kerb burgling success! I read My Place at school and it has really stayed with me so I picked it up for the kidlets in my life.

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#InMyPlace

Found this gem on FB and just had to share 💜

My little reading nook/corner at dusk ♥️

Sally Morgan‘s 1987 autobiography of discovering her Aboriginal roots is probably required reading for anyone in Australasia. She starts with her own childhood, amidst poverty but also with the sense something intangible is missing. As an adult she starts digging for her own past and as she interviews her mother, uncle and grandmother we get an account (through a personal lens)of how Aborigine were treated from the 1890s on. ⬇️

This is my copy @Weaponxgirl! I bought it second-hand online. It's a bit of a chunkster but such a great read! The fictionalized autobiography about the quest of a woman to find and understand her aboriginal origins ❤️

@Andrew65 The latest book in the Seven Sisters series definitely transported me back to this story 😉

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#readingwomenmonth Australian author. This is an old #virago I picked up and part of my #whyhaventiresdthisyet. A woman travels back to her grandmothers birthplace to discover more about her aboriginal heritage. I am almost certain I'm gonna love this book!
@ephemeralwaltz @Andrew65 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This book is so beautiful! The story is incredible, and one that should be told more often. The colonial aspect is something that hit close to home, and the intertwining stories are just so poignant. Highly recommend this to everyone! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #epicreadsmadlibs #nounplace @EpicReads #readharderchallenge #poccharactergoesonaspiritualjourney @bookriot #litsyreadingchallenge #pocmemoir @jessplummer #LitsyAtoZauthors @BookishMarginalia

I am so in love with this book 😍 I'm having so many emotions as I'm reading it because of the subject matter and the time frame (memoir of a young girl who discovers her Australian Aboriginal heritage and works to uncover her mother and grandmother's hidden pasts in the 1980s). I'm intensely proud of my Canadian heritage, and the beautiful Native Canadian history that is preserved.

"...they didn't understand. I knew fairytales were the stuff dreams were made of. And I loved dreams."

Always supporting Indigenous Aus lit. stories. #ownvoices #litsygram #anitaheiss #sallymorgan #riotgrams

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Read this book last year in school for my class on Postcolonial History and I certainly recommend it! Sally Morgan narrates her life focused around how she discovered her Aboriginal roots during her childhood in postcolonial Australia. The book not only tells her story but it also tells her mother's and her grandmother's stories, and how they all sought to find "their places" ?