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What the Tides Remember: A New Zealand Coming-of-Age; the '50s to the '70s
Paperback
Biographies GeneralAging & Elder CareGeneral Parenting
ISBN13: 9781067304706
Publisher: Wayfinder Books
Published: Aug 28 2026
Pages: 452
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In What the Tides Remember, ten interconnected novellas explore what it meant to grow up in New Zealand from the 1950s through the 1970s - an era of shifting identities, post-war silences, and emerging freedoms.
From childhood adventures on the vast sands of Ninety Mile Beach to the shadowed living rooms of post-war Auckland suburbs, from first loves that flare and fade to adult reckonings decades later, these stories illuminate the quiet forces that shape us: memory, desire, family, and the fragile courage to be seen.
Each story stands on its own, yet together they form a mosaic of a young nation and the people learning to define themselves within it. The collection moves through innocence and awakening, through grief and connection, through the mysteries that linger in the spaces between what is spoken and what is felt.
Tender, contemplative, and steeped in the textures of mid-century Aotearoa, What the Tides Remember is a haunting homage to the years that make us who we are.
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