Memoirs of Turtle Land

In today's mobile world,we often live at great distances from out childhood homes.Even if we still live where we grew up,the location has often changed significantly from the days of our youth.Years later,it can be difficult to find ways to share childhood memories of home with out children and friends.Author Tengku Halimah wanted to share her memories of growing up in the eastern state of Malaysia,Terengganu,with the younger generation of her famliy.In Memories of Turtleland,She reconnects the famliy's younger generation to a link that could be lost.She reminisces about chilhood days spent in Kuala Terengganu with her siblings and the adventures they shared.Despite the strict upbringing of her father,she and her sisters managed to have fun glowing up in a famliy of twelve.Building on information hoot her mother,Halimah also touches on the famliy history and the grandeur of the royal families,while not forgetting the ordinary life she had growing up in Terengganu with her siblings.One of the most important things we can do is to skate out memories with a younger generation,it provides them with a sense of a history,that they may not otherwise understand.This memoir skates vivid memories,intersting and englightening to those inside and outside the famliy.