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'This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.’s definitive 'Growing Up' series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways.
'Growing Up in Australia also features gems from essential Australian memoirs such as Maxine Beneba Clarke’s The Hate Race, Rick Morton’s 100 Years of Dirtand Stan Grant’s Talking to My Country.
'Contributors include Tim Winton, Benjamin Law, Melissa Lucashenko, Magda Szubanski, Christos Tsiolkas and many more.
'With a foreword by Alice Pung, this anthology is a wonderful gift for adult and adolescent readers alike.'
Source : publisher's blurb
Contents
- Talking to My Country, single work autobiography
- Reckoning, single work autobiography
- Piano Lessons, single work autobiography
- Tourism, single work autobiography essay
- The Game Is to Hide, single work autobiography
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Her Mother's Daughter,
single work
autobiography
My daughter's daughter, you have come? She stretched to her toes and reached out to kiss my cheek, but she could only manage to reach my neck - I was too tall, no longer the child she once held in her arms. (Introduction)
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Easter, 1969,
single work
life story
'The day before my fourth birthday my mother made a magnificent cake. She had found the design in one of her magazines - the witch's cottage from Hansel and Gretel. I watched, entranced, as she carved the vanilla pound cake into section. A fat square for the base, and two triangles for wedged above it for the roof. The layers were glued together with thick butter icing; not ideal for engineering, as by the time my party came around one-half of the roof was listing badly in the Brisbane humidity. The entire production was on the verge of collapse, and a hasty fix with toothpicks would be needed to prevent it from toppling, minutes before our gusts arrived. Family and friends might be impaled by the lurking infrastructure, but the star feature of her party table had been saved.' (Introduction)
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Wei-Lei and Me,
single work
autobiography
Indian Aditi and Chinese Wei-Li are tormented by Australian Barry at school in Canberra.
- Red Dust, Jet Streams and Chanel No.5, single work autobiography
- Land's End, single work autobiography
- Hippotherapy, single work autobiography
- Boobs, Rags and Judy Blume, single work autobiography
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Nobody Puts Baby Spice in a Corner,
single work
life story
'There have been many moments in my life when I've had to take control of my own identity. I think in many ways, some more subconscious than not, I've always wanted it to be left up to me.' (Introduction)
- The Wall of Shame, single work autobiography
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The Little Town on the Railway Track,
single work
life story
'After many years of travelling from town to town and living in tents, paddock shacks and rented houses, we were finally going to get a home of our own - one that was stable, one we could call home. Our house in Condo had burnt down many years ago, and since then we had been travelling fro one paddock to another, one place to another.' (Introduction)
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Sam,
single work
autobiography
'Mum always finds it hard to talk about him. One day, around age five, I come home from school and ask her why I don't have a father. She isn't prepared to answer at the time, yet she's been expecting this question for a while. The next day at work, she calls a friend in tears, trying to find ways to broach the subject with me.' (Introduction)
- Perfect Chinese Children, single work autobiography
- Be Good, Little Migrants, single work autobiography
- Question Marks and a Theory of Vision, single work autobiography
- When Worlds Collide, Words Fail, single work autobiography