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Don't Take Your Love to Town

Don't Take Your Love to Town

First Nations Classics

by Ruby Langford Ginibi and Nardi Simpson
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/05/2023

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First published in 1988, a bestselling, seminal work of Indigenous memoir and a story of courage and humour in the face of poverty and tragedy.

Ruby Langford Ginibi's remarkable talent for storytelling grabbed the attention of both black and white Australians when she released Don't Take Your Love to Town, which has gone on to become a bestseller and is now a seminal work of Indigenous memoir.

Don't Take Your Love to Town is a story of courage in the face of poverty and tragedy. Ruby recounts losing her mother when she was six, growing up in a mission in northern New South Wales and leaving home when she was fifteen. She lived in tin huts and tents in the bush and picked up work on the land while raising nine children virtually single-handedly. Later she struggled to make ends meet in the Koori areas of Sydney.

Don't Take Your Love to Town is a brilliant memoir that will open your eyes and heart to an extraordinary woman's story.

ISBN:
9780702266003
9780702266003
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-05-2023
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
408
Dimensions (mm):
197x129x38mm
Weight:
0.38kg
Ruby Langford Ginibi

Ruby Langford Ginibi (1934-2011), a member of the Bundjalung people, was born on Box Ridge mission at Coraki in northern New South Wales. She grew up in Bonalbo and later Casino. Her autobiographies Don't Take Your Love to Town (1988) and Real Deadly (1992) describe her life in the bush and later in Sydney raising a family of nine children.

Recognised as a spokesperson, educator and author of Koori culture, she travelled and lectured in Australia and abroad, and her essays were widely published. Her tribal name 'Ginibi' (black swan) was given to her in 1990 by her aunt, Eileen Morgan, a tribal elder of Box Ridge mission. She returned to Bundjalung country to re-establish connections with her family, community and land she left as a child. My Bundjalung People is an account of her journey home, and was published by UQP in 1994.

Nardi Simpson

Nardi Simpson is a Yuwaalaraay writer, musician, composer and educator from North West NSW freshwater plains. A founding member of Indigenous folk duo Stiff Gins, Nardi has been performing nationally and internationally for 20 years.

Her debut novel, Song of the Crocodile was a 2018 winner of a black&write! writing fellowship.

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