Don't Take Your Love to Town
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Don't Take Your Love to Town

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eBook - ePub

Don't Take Your Love to Town

About this book

Ruby Langford Ginibi' s remarkable talent for storytelling grabbed the attention of both black and white Australians when she released Don' t Take Your Love to Town, which has gone on to become a bestseller and is now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir. Don' t Take Your Love to Town is a story of courage in the face of poverty and tragedy. Ruby recounts losing her mother when she was six, growing up in a mission in northern New South Wales and leaving home when she was fifteen. She lived in tin huts and tents in the bush and picked up work on the land while raising nine children virtually single-handedly. Later she struggled to make ends meet in the Koori areas of Sydney. Don' t Take Your Love to Town is a brilliant memoir that will open your eyes and heart to an extraordinary woman' s story.

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Table of contents

  1. Author Biography
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction by Nardi Simpson
  6. Names
  7. Chapter 1: You are my Sunshine
  8. Chapter 2: Chiefy Pie and the Ballet Lesson
  9. Chapter 3: Ghost Riders in the Sky
  10. Chapter 4: The Bodiless Woman
  11. Chapter 5: My Belongin Place
  12. Chapter 6: Bush Tucker
  13. Chapter 7: The Fencing Circus
  14. Chapter 8: The Oinky Chapter
  15. Chapter 9: A Stranger in My Camp
  16. Chapter 10: Corroboree/Phaedra
  17. Chapter 11: Salt-of-the-earth Women
  18. Chapter 12: The Debutante Ball
  19. Chapter 13: Deaths and Weddings
  20. Chapter 14: The Boys in Trouble
  21. Chapter 15: Why we didn’t ‘Assimilate’
  22. Chapter 16: Nobby Goes to Gaol
  23. Chapter 17: The Operation
  24. Chapter 18: Little Black Duck
  25. Chapter 19: Uluru
  26. Chapter 20: Reunion
  27. Chapter 21: Surviving Culture
  28. Chapter 22: She’s very impressive, Mary
  29. Glossary
  30. Acknowledgements
  31. Imprint Page