Sally Morgan's My Place is a story of a young Aboriginal girl growing up to false heritage and not knowing where she is from.

The story setting revolves around Morgan's own hometown, Perth, Western Australia, and also Corunna Downs Station, managed by Alfred Howden Drake-Brockman.

She faces many challenges, such as fitting in at school, getting good marks for acceptance in University, and living life without her father.

What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage.

My Place is an account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author’s mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.

To me that is My Place’s greatest weakness – requiring little translation (to a white audience), therefore it reeks of whitewashing in the ultimate sense."

Neither do I accept any definition of aboriginality by non-Aboriginals as it insults my intelligence, spirit and soul, and negates my heritage.In response to Attwood's opinions on My Place being written in English, Japanese lecturer Hirokazu Sonoda responded in his essay 'A Preliminary Study of Sally Morgan’s My Place':[4] Both Attwood and Huggins display negative attitudes towards Sally's use of English to build her aboriginality.