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Mazin Grace
About this book
Growing up on the Mission isn' t easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn' t know what to say. Papa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn' t help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn' t understand. In Mazin Grace, Dylan Coleman fictionalises her mother' s childhood at the Koonibba Lutheran Mission in South Australia in the 1940s and ' 50s. Woven through the narrative are the powerful, rhythmic sounds of Aboriginal English and Kokatha language, Mazin Grace is the inspirational story of a feisty girl who refuses to be told who she is, determined to uncover the truth for herself.
Table of contents
- Author biography
- Title page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction by Claire G Coleman
- Chapter 1: Minya wunyi wonganyi
- Chapter 2: If welfare get us, we finished
- Chapter 3: Where I belong?
- Chapter 4: Secret-pretty-things
- Chapter 5: Lookin’ for answers
- Chapter 6: Ngoonji bula: God, Jesus and Father Christmas
- Chapter 7: Goin’ away
- Chapter 8: Mumoo jumpin’ ’round
- Chapter 9: Walbiya gu minga: white man’s sickness
- Chapter 10: Healin’ jinna minga
- Chapter 11: Some things stay the same, some things change
- Chapter 12: Riddle solved
- Chapter 13: Lookin’ through new guru mooga
- Chapter 14: The sins of the father
- Chapter 15: Dolly gets a haircut
- Chapter 16: Goin’ back to country, in heaven
- Chapter 17: Goojarb: serves yourself right
- Chapter 18: Growing changes
- Chapter 19: Wash me away
- Glossary
- Author’s note
- Acknowledgements
- Imprint page
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