A Question of Colour: My Journey to Belonging by Pattie Lees with Adam C Lees

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Faint mark on right foredge. Inscribed by author.

The removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families remains a dark chapter in Australia’s history.

Pattie Lees was ten years old when she and her four siblings were separated from their mother on the grounds of neglect and placed into State care. Believing she was being shipped and exiled to Africa, Pattie was ultimately fated to spend the rest of her childhood on the island once dubbed ‘Australia’s Alcatraz’ – Palm Island Aboriginal Settlement, off the coast of Queensland.

A Question of Colour: My Journey to Belonging provides a first-hand account of Pattie’s experiences as a ‘fair-skinned Aboriginal’ during Australia’s assimilationist policy era and recounts her survival following a decade of sexual, physical and emotional abuse as a Ward of the State.

A Question of Colour is a profoundly moving and powerful testimony to a young girl's resilience, identity, and journey to belong. (publisher blurb)