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A review by wetherspoonsgf
My Place by Sally Morgan
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
not a huge fan of how this executed its main premise, though interestingly i think it deliberately tries to frustrate you as a reader, which i like.
it feels a little too willing to let 1987-present australia wipe its hands of a lot of racism, and readings where it doesn't do that rely on an amount of faith in the narrative & construction that i can't quite find.
that said, i don't want to place unfair expectations on the book as an object of postcolonial literature, it's not as cut and dry as 'i didn't like it', but also, i didn't hugely like it. justice for nan.
it feels a little too willing to let 1987-present australia wipe its hands of a lot of racism, and readings where it doesn't do that rely on an amount of faith in the narrative & construction that i can't quite find.
that said, i don't want to place unfair expectations on the book as an object of postcolonial literature, it's not as cut and dry as 'i didn't like it', but also, i didn't hugely like it. justice for nan.