Tauhou : a novel
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House of Anansi Press,
[Toronto, Ontario] :
2023.
- 2 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
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| Fonthill | FIC Nutta 2023 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
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About
"Dear grandmother, I am writing this song, over and over again, for you. I am a stranger in this place, he tauhou ahau, reintroducing myself to your land. Tauhou is an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Kotuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Maori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past - all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores. In a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Maori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. Tauhou is an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea."--
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Details
- ISBN: 9781487011697
- Physical Description: 204 pages ; 21 cmprint
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : House of Anansi Press, 2023.
- General Note: In English with SENĆOŦEN and te reo Māori.Published in New Zealand in 2022 by Te Herenga Waka University Press.
- Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.