Author Talk - Leanne Weber - Cooma Library

Meet local author Leanne Weber

Part memoir, part social commentary, this is a stolen generations story with a difference. Told from the perspective of a non-indigenous foster sister,The Chosen Sonrecounts one woman's lifelong quest to come to terms with her family's role in colonial policies that separated Indigenous children from their parents.

Leanne Weber is an Adjunct Professor of Canberra Law School and has published 11 academic books on policing, human rights and border control. She has also been awarded the Christine M Alder Book Prize by the ANZ Society of Criminology. 

Leanne lives with her partner on unceded Ngarigu land locally in beautiful Jindabyne. 

Join Leanne as she discuses the writing process of this book, her experiences although a mere fragment of The Stolen Generations history, writing from the perspective of the younger sister/daughter - with the insight of an academic mind, along with the fraught and challenging nexus of personal story, indigenous histories and the ramifications for us as a nation.

We have a number of copies available for borrow in our libraries. 

WHERE: Cooma Library

WHEN: 11am to 12.30pm Wednesday 23 July 2025

For bookings and more information contact your library.

P (02) 6451 1630
E libraries@smrc.nsw.gov.au

 

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Cooma library

Cooma Library, 61 Vale Street, Cooma, 2630, View Map