It can feel disjointed at times because of this double duty. It’s also an angry book, with short dramatic sentences, as if meant to be read aloud. Grant describes himself as a storyteller and the book is crammed with engrossing stories. That’s a big brief, and it’s hard to pin down quite what this book is – part polemic, part memoir. Talking to My Country is described as a meditation on race, identity and history. The contradictions of being black in Australia, shown so vividly in this book, are there right from the beginning, in the dedication to ‘my grandmother Ivy and my wife Tracey – white women who have loved us’. Part polemic, part memoir, Stan Grant’s new book is a passionate account of the toll of a lifetime of negotiating between two cultures. Tags: Adam Goodes/ Australian Indigenous writing/ Australian non-fiction/ National Indigenous Television/ Noel Pearson/ Paul Keating/ Stan Grant
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