Matters of the heart : a memoir
Price, Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa2025
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was nine months pregnant and due to give birth the night she attended her high school formal. With her baby tucked in her arms, she completed year 12 from her hospital bed. Early in their relationship, she took her future husband, Colin, to the Alice Springs morgue to identify the body of a family member who'd been killed. Nothing about the life of this passionate and steely Warlpiri woman could ever be described as ordinary. In this remarkable memoir, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price candidly recalls her journey from the remote outback communities of Yuendumu and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory - a young girl with big dreams and the red dust of her ancestors under her fingernails - to the corridors of Canberra and beyond. Honest, raw, and at times heartbreaking, Matters of the Heart is a deeply personal reflection of how a young Indigenous woman, growing up surrounded by violence and tragedy, beat the odds to become one of the most powerful political voices of our time. 'I've been to hell and back, and I've survived.'
Main title:
Matters of the heart : a memoir / Jacinta Nampijinpa Price ; with Sue Smethurst ; foreword by Hon John Howard AC.
Author:
Price, Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa, authorSmethurst, Sue, authorHoward, John, 1939-, writer of foreword
Imprint:
Gadigal Country ; [Sydney, NSW] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.©2025
Collation:
xv, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits, map ; 24 cm
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ISBN:
9781460766767 (paperback)
Dewey class:
324.2092923.242
Language:
English
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BRN:
643477