It includes a helpful glossary and pronunciation guide, and colour plates of the artwork the sisters produced as well as a selection of their photographs. The sister’s memoirs are told separately - Ngarta’s is titled A Desert Tragedy, while Jukuna’s is My Life in the Desert - and there are short chapters, by Pat Lowe (who edited the stories) and Eirlys Richards (who translated them from the Walmajarri language), explaining how the book came into being and putting the sister’s lives into context. The book is comprised of several different parts. It’s also a fascinating and eye-opening portrait of the desert people’s way of life in the 1950s and early 60s and how the coming of the vast cattle stations changed everything. Two Sisters: Ngarta and Jukuna is a brilliantly evocative autobiography of two aboriginal sisters.
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