Author : Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
Publisher : Fremantle Press
ISBN 13 : 1760992232
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)
Book Synopsis The Archipelago of Us by : Reneé Pettitt-Schipp
Download or read book The Archipelago of Us written by Reneé Pettitt-Schipp and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Reneé Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories of the asylum seekers she taught there in Australia' s detention system. Why do the islands still have a hold on her? Why are her memories such troubled ones? And why can she not let go?Closer to Indonesia than Australia, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are out of sight and out of mind to most Australians, but they are the sites of some of our frontier wars, the places where our identity is laid bare in all its flawed complexity &– and the places where there is time and space enough to ask: can we be better than this?A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australia' s complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.