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Andra Putnis

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Toowoomba, Australia

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https://www.andraputnis.com.au/

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Biography, Nonfiction, Memoir

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February 2024

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Andra is an Australian writer working to tell powerful stories to help us better understand our world and each other.

Her debut book reveals the incredible stories of how her two Latvian grandmothers lived through the terror of the Second World War and survived to immigrate to Australia.

Against the backdrop of our increasingly uncertain world, the book delves into why we need the stories of our grandmothers to better understand where we come from and who we want to be.

Andra lives in Canberra on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country with her partner and two children. She's loves spending time curled up reading or outside in the sun. ...more

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Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me

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This poignant, beautiful and clever book brings real heart and warmth to enterprise of ethnographers, anthropologists and those engaged in life history research. Tamara takes us on the journey she went on to understand life in Gingko Village (rural C ...more
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“My Rudis is also gone. I will marry you and we'll start again together.”
― Andra Putnis, Stories My Grandmothers Didn't Tell Me

tags: displaced-peoples, love, war

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