The Tears of Strangers

A stunning memoir of growing up black in a white world.When Australian journalist Stan Grant set out to write his family's history, what he discovered about himself and his family shocked him. He was born into the Wiradjuri tribe, warriors who occupied the vast territory of central and south western New South Wales. For 100 years the Wiradjuri waged a war against European invasion and settlement. By 1963, when Stan was born, the war had been lost, the remnants of the Wiradjuri tribe scattered onto mission camps and fringes of rural towns, and ravaged by alcoholism, poverty, abuse and neglect it was against this backdrop of families torn apart and scattered that Stan's family waged its own struggle to survive.The Tears of Strangersis an unforgettable memoir of survival, healing and hope. It is the story of the Wiradjuri people, the Grant family and Stan's own journey to come to terms with his Aboriginality and identity. In a career of journalism that has taken him to Belfast, Baghdad, Soweto, Jerusalem, London, Paris, Berlin, Athens and Hong Kong where he would interview despots, tin-pot revolutionaries, madmen and saints 埓tan Grant's own story is the most difficult and powerful that he could ever tell.