My Place

by Sally Morgan

Overview

The celebrated, award-winning classic by Sally Morgan, now available in a brand new edition. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781760996185
Publisher:	Fremantle Press
Publication date:	06/01/2025
Pages:	450
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Sally Morgan is from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Born in Perth in 1951, she grew up in suburban Manning. Sally completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Western Australia in 1974, majoring in Psychology. She also has postgraduate diplomas from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University) in both Counselling Psychology and Computing and Library Studies. My Place is Sally s first book, and upon publication it immediately achieved bestseller status. It was the winner of the 1987 Australian Human Rights Award for Literature and the 1990 Order of Australia Book Prize, and is now considered an Australian classic. Sally has gone on to write, edit and illustrate many works for both children and adults, including the verse novel Sister Heart, winner of the 2016 Prime Minister s Literary Award. She is also a celebrated artist with works in numerous private and public collections in Australia and overseas.

Editorial Reviews

"A book for everyone: a book with the form and texture of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages. It is wonderfully entertaining." —New York Times Book Review

"A triumphant story that makes you glad it’s been told." —Times on Sunday



"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, The Color Purple



"Funny and sad and very real: a satisfying and absorbing book, a unique record." —Pittburgh Press



"A moving and quite remarkable account of personal discovery." —Sydney Morning Herald



"One of the most significant milestones in Aboriginal literature." —Australian Magazine

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