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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Poorhara

Poorhara

Rahurahu, Michelle

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1776921283
ISBN13: 9781776921287
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Published: Mar 14 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
ERIN can hear the whaanau whispering, and they won't tell her why. She's ditched school to help her aunty clean houses-- even though she has a full-time job looking after all the moko. But no one cares, and soon she will be picked clean, like the bones in her maamaa's bedroom. STAR is home for the first time in years, and he's worn the same clothes for days. Everything feels unfamiliar: the karakia, his nephews, the house that he grew up in. He's too scared to tell his family that he's bombing back at uni. And the past is an affliction, a gently rising tide. It is 178 years after colonisation. Together, the cousins escape. Free-wheeling across the countryside in a car without a warrant, they cast their net widely. Their family mythologies, heartaches and rifts will surface, and amidst them the glint of possibility: a return to the whenua where it all began. A tragicomedy set in the confines of a 1994 Daihatsu Mira, Poorhara is a journey of epic proportions-- a poignant, expansive and darkly funny first novel written by a true poorhara.

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