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Main : non-fiction, Indigenous, human rights, mental health

ISBN: 9781875559954
0.200 kgs
198 x 128 mm
140 pp

Kick the Tin
Doris Kartinyeri

When Doris Kartinyeri was a month old, her mother died. The family gathered to mourn their loss and welcome the new baby home. But Doris never arrived to live with her family – she was stolen from the hospital and placed in Colebrook Home, where she stayed for the next fourteen years.

The legacy of being a member of the Stolen Generations continued for Doris as she was placed in white homes as a virtual slave, struggled through relationships and suffered with anxiety and mental illness. ‘Kick the tin’ was a game Doris Kartinyeri played in the Colebrook Home. This is a life that has been kicked around. It is the compelling and sometimes witty memoir of a courageous journey, a journey into the soul of an individual to find meaning and substance after the loss of everything the rest of us take for granted.

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Kick the Tin is a quiet, powerful book.

Source: Belletrista.com
Reviewer: Charlotte Simpson

‘[Kick the Tin] is a story of courage and survival, powerfully demonstrating how the human spirit can soar despite all the injuries and injustices which threaten to drag it down.’

Reviewer: Lowitja O’Donoghue

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