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1 y separately published work icon Watched by Ancestors : An Australian Family in Papua New Guinea Kathy Golski , Australia : Wutheringink , 2016 10931191 2016 single work autobiography

'This memoir describes two years the author spent with her young family in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Tells of her struggles to adapt to a new marriage, to maintain her identity as a painter, to care for her children and to cope with her new surroundings. Includes a glossary.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 2 of Us : Kathy Golski and Wojciech 'Voy' Dabrowski Kathy Golski , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 13 September 2008; (p. 16)
1 Kathy Golski : The Books That Changed Me Kathy Golski , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 24 August 2008; (p. 10) Kathy Golski nominates five books that changed her. Her list includes the Billabong series by Mary Grant Bruce and Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita.
1 1 y separately published work icon My Two Husbands Kathy Golski , Camberwell : Viking , 2008 Z1516875 2008 single work autobiography Kathy Golski falls in love with a handsome Polish medical student, Olek, in Sydney in the 1960's. Olek is the only child of Jewish parents; together the family survived the Holocaust, before coming to Australia to start a new life. Kathy is fascinated by the culture and history of the family, but overwhelmed by the demands of her new mother-in-law, Mamushka, who has no notion of personal boundaries when it comes to her only child. Olek and Kathy have three children and move to Canberra. While the children are still very young, Olek is killed in a cycling accident. Kathy describes the grieving process and the story of falling in love with the man, another Pole, who happened to be staying in Kathy's house at the time of the accident. With enormous patience, this man, an anthropologist, takes Kathy and her creative, unconventional children under his wing, moving them to PNG for a period so he can complete his study. Intertwined in this wonderful story of love, loss, hope and the chaos of family life are wonderful descriptions of how Kathy develops as an artist."--Provided by publisher.
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