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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Page 53
... Queenie . YAPA WAY Snip is beginning again to talk Yapa way . Dropping ' and ' and ' the ' , economical way . Saying ... Queenie tells her when the dead are buried , it's called planting them . Queenie tells her the kids in the commu ...
... Queenie . YAPA WAY Snip is beginning again to talk Yapa way . Dropping ' and ' and ' the ' , economical way . Saying ... Queenie tells her when the dead are buried , it's called planting them . Queenie tells her the kids in the commu ...
Page 104
... Queenie says to Shelly - Anne that maybe the men just want talking and Bud snaps that he's not going to risk it and Queenie takes up the wailing , softly , again . Snip asks Bud what place exactly they're going to . He says it's a ...
... Queenie says to Shelly - Anne that maybe the men just want talking and Bud snaps that he's not going to risk it and Queenie takes up the wailing , softly , again . Snip asks Bud what place exactly they're going to . He says it's a ...
Page 105
... Queenie says something sharp to a child of about eight who's sinking into sleep in a chair . His head is languid in his hand but he snaps awake and Queenie pushes him out the door . ' He my grandson . Kenny . Good one , coming up strong ...
... Queenie says something sharp to a child of about eight who's sinking into sleep in a chair . His head is languid in his hand but he snaps awake and Queenie pushes him out the door . ' He my grandson . Kenny . Good one , coming up strong ...
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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