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'A true story of love, loss and mothers and daughters across generations In 2001 Rebecca Huntley's maternal grandmother - her Italian nonna - died.
This sparked a decade-long search for the "truth" about her grandmother's life, and the lives of the men and women in her family from Innisfail, Northern Queensland, during the hard times of World War II. The nonna Rebecca knew was a kind-hearted and quiet individual. Short and slight, she was a wonderful cook who embroidered every day of her life. Rebecca loved her dearly but saw her as a conservative, pliant and generally uninteresting Italian woman. After her death, however, incredible stories of her nonna as a young woman surfaced and Rebecca realised that she didn't know her at all. Learning more about nonna stirred up old ghosts in Rebecca's relationship with her mother and challenged Rebecca's own sense of self as she, pregnant with her first child, had to wonder what it really means to be a mother. With evocative stories and tender honesty, Rebecca takes us on this significant search.' Source: http://uqp.com.au (Sighted 03/04/2012).
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Dedication: To my nonna, my mother, my sister, my daughter ...
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Epigraph: 'When this war is finished, if the story [of internemnt] is ever published, it will astound decent honest Australian people.' The Hon. Cecil 'Nugget' Jesson, Labor Party Queensland parliamentary representative for Kennedy (1935-50) and Hinchinbrook (1950-60)
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Mariano Coreno's poem 'Australia' appears as an epigraph
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- Australiai"Australia,", single work poetry
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Autoethnography
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bilingual Cockatoo : Writing Italian Australian Lives 2014; (p. 150-164) -
The Other Half
2012
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 August 2012; (p. 21-24) -
Non Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 - 3 June 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of The Italian Girl 2012 single work autobiography
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Non Fiction
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 - 3 June 2012; (p. 23)
— Review of The Italian Girl 2012 single work autobiography -
The Other Half
2012
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 4 - 5 August 2012; (p. 21-24) -
Autoethnography
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Bilingual Cockatoo : Writing Italian Australian Lives 2014; (p. 150-164)
- Innisfail, Innisfail area, Cardwell - Tully - Innisfail area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland,