Ankami
stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories
$31.06
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2025
Summary
‘Be careful what you wish for,’ wrote Aesop, ‘lest it come true.’ Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her family, to add flesh to the name-bones and the few precious stories she possessed. What she discovered would shatter everything she thought she knew about her family and her past.
She had been aware of her father’s five siblings, some of whom had died before she could come to know them, but there were always whispers and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760687410 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760687413 |
| Author: | Debra Dank |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Echo Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 208mm x 141mm |
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About The Author
Debra Dank
Dr. Debra Dank is a Gudanji/Wakaja and Kalkadoon woman from the Barkly Tablelands in the Northern Territory and an Enterprise Fellow with the University of South Australia. She has 40 years of experience in primary, secondary, and tertiary education roles, in both urban and remote areas across Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and the Northern Territory. Her interests include multiform narrative and its practice in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, as well as the role semiotics plays in that. Her book, We Come with This Place, received numerous awards in 2023, including four New South Wales Premier’s Awards and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Debra is passionate about the environment, especially as her Country, on the Beetaloo Basin, faces the threat of fracking.
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