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Mazin Grace
Author(s): Dylan Coleman (Author)
- Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 264 pages
- ISBN-10: 0702249343
- ISBN-13: 9780702249341
Book Description
With the powerful, rhythmic sounds of Aboriginal English and Kokatha language woven through the narrative, Mazin Grace is the inspirational story of a feisty girl who refuses to be told who she is, determined to uncover the truth for herself. Growing up on the Mission isn’t easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn’t know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn’t help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn’t understand. In this novel, author Dylan Coleman fictionalizes her mother’s childhood at the Koonibba Lutheran Mission in South Australia in the 1940s and 1950s.
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About the Author
Dylan Coleman teaches indigenous health at the University of Adelaide. Her short stories have been published in Southerly and various anthologies. For more than 20 years, she has worked to promote Aboriginal education, health, land rights, and the arts, with a focus on Aboriginal community engagement and social justice.
