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A review by jaynecm
Too Afraid to Cry by Ali Cobby Eckermann
4.0
This is a raw, haunting memoir by an Aboriginal woman who as a baby was taken from her mother as part of The Stolen Generation. It is written in a combination of poetry and prose.
It is a brave undertaking as the author exposes all her demons as she shows how she came back to her family and to country, despite all that happened to her as a child and young adult.
The poetry in particular is so raw and brutal.
"I have learnt many things from alcoholics and addicts more messed up than me. Sometimes it is amazing who you can learn from. Sometimes it is strange where you feel safe."
This is a memoir that really brings home the human cost of government policies of the time, that assumed that Aboriginal families were not suitable to raise their own children and thus forcibly removed them from their homes.
It is a brave undertaking as the author exposes all her demons as she shows how she came back to her family and to country, despite all that happened to her as a child and young adult.
The poetry in particular is so raw and brutal.
"I have learnt many things from alcoholics and addicts more messed up than me. Sometimes it is amazing who you can learn from. Sometimes it is strange where you feel safe."
This is a memoir that really brings home the human cost of government policies of the time, that assumed that Aboriginal families were not suitable to raise their own children and thus forcibly removed them from their homes.