Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

by Ali Cobby Eckermann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631494244
• ISBN13: 9781631494246
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"