Maura (maura853) - , reviewed on 1/27/2022 + 542 more book reviews

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Heartfelt story of the author's mother's escape from the Australian government policy that took Aborigine children away from their families. I just wish I could say it was a better book.

Full of fascinating information about the lives and beliefs of Aboriginal Australians, and their relationship with the challenging land that their people had survived in for thousands of years, but it would have benefitted from a good editor. Oddly enough, not to tighten it up (which is most often with the problem with a family history written by a non-professional), but to explain more, to provide context and to place the children's odyssey into the Bigger Picture ... both of Aboriginal culture and the appalling policy that took these girls from their families.

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