Alice SpringsA legacy from her grandmother sends Phillipa Snip Freeman on a personal odyssey through the Australian Outback in search of her long-lost father, and answers to her unexplained questions about her troubled childhood. |
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Aboriginal Alice Springs arms asks belly bitumen bloody body Bud says Bud's bugger bush cheek chest comes Dave and Snip Dave's deep desert dirt door drive drops dunes dust eyes face fierce fingers flicks Food fucking goanna grin hair hand head Helen Helicopter holds hurt kids land mate Merv mother mouth Napaljarri never night NIKKI GEMMEL No-one paint pulls pushes Queenie rifle road rubs sand scrabbles scrubbed Shelly-Anne shit shut side silence sits skin sleep slips smell smiles snaps Snip doesn't Snip feels Snip knows Snip looks Snip says Snip wakes Snip walks Snip's Snippy soft softly stares stomach stop swag swiftly Sydney talk Tanami Desert Tasmania tells Snip There's thing tight told town turns Vegemite voice Walpiri wants watch wedge-tailed eagle whisper whitefellas wind Wollongong woman Yapa Yeah