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Of ashes and rivers that run to the sea / Marie Munkara.

Of ashes and rivers that run to the sea / Marie Munkara.
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305.89915 MUN
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ISBN 9780857987273 (pbk.)
0857987275 (pbk.)
Name Munkara, Marie author.
Title Of ashes and rivers that run to the sea / Marie Munkara.
Published North Sydney, N.S.W. Vintage Books Australia, 2016.
Description 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary Heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving, Of Ashes and Rivers That Run to the Sea is a fearless account of being a young woman caught between two worlds. An old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of 28-year-old Marie Munkara's life forever. Until that moment she had no idea of her true origins in Arnhem Land. Delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River by her two grandmothers, Marie was fortunate not to have been thrown to the crocodiles, a fate reserved for babies born in her family with light skin. Knowing the child would be taken by the authorities, this matter-of-fact practice was considered much kinder for the babies and their families as it would save all from the heartbreak of separation and an unknown future for the child. But her grandmother Nellie had other ideas because she knew this one was 'special'. And so after the unexpected but welcome reprieve, Marie and her mother ended up on the Tiwi Islands before Marie was then taken and placed with a white family to be raised in Adelaide. After her chance finding of the baptismal card Marie went looking for her own family, leaving her strict Catholic establishment family aghast.
Subjects Munkara, Marie
Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs
Adopted children -- Australia -- Biography
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography
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