Down the line In this brilliant study of mixed heritage, the Australian writer traces her ancestry and reflects on how we idealise the homeland
Aug 05, 2022
3 minutes
By Farrah Jarral
n 2020, 34.8% of children born in England and Wales had at least one parent born outside the UK, and this figure is rising. A mixed heritage brings riches but also a sense of dislocation that complicates the notion of home. Amaryllis Gacioppo’s remarkable debut, Motherlands, follows this yearning to its source. A writer and translator born in Australia to Italian parents, Gacioppo traces her ancestral footsteps through four cities: Turin,
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