Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood by Ali Cobby Eckermann (English)

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Stolen from her family as an infant, a prize-winning poet recounts her arduous journey to reconnect with the Aboriginal culture of her birth.

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In Too Afraid to Cry, Ali Cobby Eckermann—who was recently awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world—describes with searing detail the devastating effects of racist policies that tore apart Indigenous Australian communities and created the Stolen Generations of "adoptees," Aboriginal children forcibly taken from their birth families. Told at first through the frank eyes of a child whose life was irretrievably changed after being "adopted" into a German Lutheran family, Too Afraid to Cry braids piercingly lyrical verse with spare prose to tell an intensely personal story of abuse and trauma. After years of suffering as a dark-skinned "outsider," Eckermann reveals her courageous efforts to reconcile with her birth family and find acceptance within their Indigenous community. Too Afraid to Cry offers a mirror to America and Canada's own dark history of coerced adoption of Native American children, and the violence inflicted on our continent's Indigenous peoples.

Author Biography

Ali Cobby Eckermann is an award-winning author who has toured the United States several times, most recently in connection with Yale's Windham-Campbell Prize. She lives in Adelaide, Australia.

Review

"The memory blanket surrounding each of us is woven by the ancestors, begun before the child is a curled dream within the mother. When a baby is taken by force from its mother, the blanket is damaged. Pieces lost. The child will then be a wanderer until s/he finds the pieces and puts them back together. Ali Cobby Eckermann's memoir is a memory blanket, put back together after many treacherous journeys. The weaving material is lyrical poetry, that deftly winds the story pieces together. This is an essential story, one everyone needs to hear." -- Joy Harjo, Mvskoke poet, musician and performer, and author of Crazy Brave"Simple prose belies a heavy heart in this straightforward but subtly heartbreaking chronicle of trauma and tragedy by poet Eckermann (Ruby Moonlight, 2015, etc.), a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize. . . . A subdued memoir about shouldering pain, owning decisions, and finding a voice." -- Kirkus Reviews

Review Quote

"The memory blanket surrounding each of us is woven by the ancestors, begun before the child is a curled dream within the mother. When a baby is taken by force from its mother, the blanket is damaged. Pieces lost. The child will then be a wanderer until s/he finds the pieces and puts them back together. Ali Cobby Eckermann's memoir is a memory blanket, put back together after many treacherous journeys. The weaving material is lyrical poetry, that deftly winds the story pieces together. This is an essential story, one everyone needs to hear."

Details ISBN1631494244 Year 2018 ISBN-10 1631494244 ISBN-13 9781631494246 Format Hardcover Author Ali Cobby Eckermann Pages 224 Language English Publication Date 2018-02-13 Short Title Too Afraid to Cry Subtitle Memoir of a Stolen Childhood Imprint Liveright Publishing Corporation Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2018-02-13 NZ Release Date 2018-02-13 US Release Date 2018-02-13 UK Release Date 2018-02-13 Publisher WW Norton & Co DEWEY B Audience General We've got this

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