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- Narrated by: Zahra Newman
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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'Against anything I had ever been told was possible, I was turning white. On the surface of my skin, a miracle was quietly brewing....'
Suburban Australia. Sweltering heat. Three-bedroom blonde brick. Family of five. Beat-up Ford Falcon. Vegemite on toast. Maxine Beneba Clarke's life is just like all the other Aussie kids' on her street. Except for this one glaring, inescapably obvious thing.
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- jo Casey
- 30-08-2017
Beautifully narrated and written.
I share this story. It is also mine as with many people who have migrated to Australia. Hearing this story helped me to see how most people just dont realize how harsh their words feel.
Many people in Australia are ignorant and uneducated to the rest of the world. This is an island protected by a huge amount of water. Many Australians have never traveled and are regurgitating the racism of their parents.
I feel different and sometimes detest it unless we are in a multiracial group. Thats when we are happiest! We do clock each other when we see another person in a crowd of brown skin.
We try to get on with it but are constantly reminded when an innocent stranger asks "where are you from?" then again "no WHERE are YOU from!" really asking what is your genetic background. Most people believe it is an innocent and just curious question.
I feel far away from my family and have made a new family here. i love my family here. My families history also has slave trade mass genocide rape and sadness. It is time to move on and forgive the past. If only strangers didnt keep asking and by this are reminding me of it.
The solution for me has been to teach my children resilience and hopefully they will rise above. I hope someday the leaders of our country reflect the diversity and the indigenous footprint laid here long ago.
This book should be on a list of reading for High School.
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- Anthony Earl
- 18-02-2017
Eye-opening and outstanding
This is heart-wrenching. Worth the time for anyone hoping to understand what it is like to be an Australian from a non-white background.
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- Nicmacc
- 06-12-2017
Brilliant!
Loved this story, sad but true. I grew up in the area book was set in and I can relate.
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- Katie Batty
- 19-06-2017
Insightful story
A powerful personal story showing the devastating and ongoing impacts racism has on people's lives.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-05-2020
Could not put it down
This is the first book I chose to listen to on Audible and it did not let me down. Beautifully retold, harrowing, poignant and funny, I thoroughly enjoyed this early life memoir. As a white person I gained a beneficial insight into our casual racism and how much it costs those we hurt.
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- shazjmorgan
- 14-11-2019
Eye-Opening and Thought Provoking
A really well written glance into Australia's multicultural society of the 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe I was just lucky in my upbringing and in the environment my parents brought me up in, but I just don't recall that time period being quite as harsh as portrayed in Clarke's writing.
But, to be fair, I am a white (first generation) Australian of Scottish descent, so I obviously (in my bubble of youth) just didn't notice.
I am not saying that the behaviour described didn't, or would not have happened (I'm not that naive). But I will say, looking back on my childhood and looking at the world today, I'm eternally grateful for my parents of that era. For I seem to have ventured through childhood (and most of my adult hood) not even noticing the colour of ones skin, the choice of ones deity, or even ones sexual preference.
I guess I was one of the lucky few of the time, who grew up believing that people are just people, regardless of how they are packaged.
While I'm not naive enough to believe that this behavior no longer happens, Clarke's writing has reignited in me, a more aware and observant approach to my own community.
Beautifully narrated by Zahra Newman
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- Anonymous User
- 09-03-2019
Heart Breaking
A life journey that must be shared. Heartbreaking in so many ways.
Beautifully written and beautifully read. Vivid descriptions of an experience that has to be told. Thank you
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- Giorgia Johnson
- 06-04-2017
Beautiful and brutal
Beautifully written and performed, singing brutal truths about racism and bullying growing up black in suburban Sydney, and still resonating now. Listening, I wept in bitter anger, as Maxine tells the story of her school days, dismayingly familiar monstrous classmates and disappointing teachers, and laughed at her charming descriptions of life in the 70's and 80's from daggy dad, ovalteenies and cabbage patch kids to Nick the Greeks disastrous hair straightening....
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- a-cbates
- 11-11-2022
How others survive . . .
Enlightening I thoroughly enjoyed learning how the author survived with many years of racist comments
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- L-Ka
- 13-12-2020
Beautiful!
This book is a must read! Especially to those people who do not understand racism and the longstanding effects it can have on a person. This book is an incredible story, the author has done such an amazing job of describing how racism is systemic and how some people just deny that it’s there at all. Narrator was brilliant too.
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