Too Afraid to Cry

By: Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Paperback | 22 May 2013

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Too Afraid to Cry is a memoir that, in bare blunt prose and piercingly lyrical verse, gives witness to the human cost of policies that created the Stolen Generations of Indigenous people in Australia.

It is the story of a people profoundly wronged, told through the frank eyes of a child, and the troubled mind of that child as an adult, whose life was irretrievably changed by being tricked away from her family and adopted into a German Lutheran family.

About the Author

Ali Cobby Eckermann is the winner of the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry. Her writing reflects her journey to reconnect with her Yankunytjatjara/Kokatha family. Her first verse novel, "His Father's Eyes," was published in 2011. "Ruby Moonlight," her second verse novel, won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Book of the Year Award in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2013. In 2014, Ali was the first Indigenous Australian writer to attend the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. Her most recent collection of poetry is "Inside My Mother," published in 2015.

Industry Reviews

?"It is not long, this book. It can be read in a sitting. And it may change the way you think, about Australia, or about Aboriginal people, in ways more sophisticated literary exercises would not." - The Australian

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