xi Preface -- 1 An Essay of Forgetting -- 43 My Mother's House -- 75 Country Towns -- 113 A life in Letters -- 163 A Walk through Eastern Europe -- 204 Endnotes
Summary
A collection of autobiographical essays in which John Hughes reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War. Winner of 2006 National Biography Award
Analysis
First generation migrants
Ukraine
Autobiography
John Hughes
Immigrants - New South Wales - Hunter River Region - Biography