Of Ashes and Rivers that Run to the Sea
Author: Munkara, Marie
ISBN: 9780857987273
Publisher: ADULT LOCAL VINTAGE - MASS MKT
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving moving memoir from a fearlessly talented writer
A heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving memoir from a fearlessly talented writer
Delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River by her two full-blood grandmothers, Marie Munkara was born with light skin which meant one thing - it would only be a matter of time before she would be taken by the authorities and given to a white family to be raised.
Then twenty-eight years later an old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of her life forever. It was a link to her past.
Knowing that she had to follow her heart or forever live to regret it Marie set out to find the family that she had lost, leaving her strict white Catholic parents aghast - why dig up the past?
With devastating honesty, humour and courage, the award-winning author of Every Secret Thing shares her extraordinary journey of discovery to find her origins.
ISBN: 9780857987273
Publisher: ADULT LOCAL VINTAGE - MASS MKT
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 233mm x 154mm x 21mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving moving memoir from a fearlessly talented writer
A heartbreaking, darkly funny and deeply moving memoir from a fearlessly talented writer
Delivered on the banks of the Mainoru River by her two full-blood grandmothers, Marie Munkara was born with light skin which meant one thing - it would only be a matter of time before she would be taken by the authorities and given to a white family to be raised.
Then twenty-eight years later an old baptismal card falling out of a book changed the course of her life forever. It was a link to her past.
Knowing that she had to follow her heart or forever live to regret it Marie set out to find the family that she had lost, leaving her strict white Catholic parents aghast - why dig up the past?
With devastating honesty, humour and courage, the award-winning author of Every Secret Thing shares her extraordinary journey of discovery to find her origins.
