Auntie Rita

Rita HUGGINS and Jackie HUGGINS

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Reprinted 2005 & 2010, 1996, pb, 210x150mm, 160pp, b/w illus
RRP $22.95 incl. GST
ISBN 9780855752484

| Contents | Foreword | Sample Chapter |

'Most people call me Auntie Rita, whites as well as Aboriginal people. Auntie is a term of respect of our older women folk. You don't have to be blood-related or anything. Everyone is kin. That's a beautiful thing because in this way no one is ever truly alone, they always have someone they can turn to.'

Rita Huggins told her memories to her daughter Jackie, and some of their conversation is in this book. We witness their intimacy, their similarities and their differences, the 'fighting with their tongues'. Two voices, two views on a shared life