Poorhara

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ERIN can hear the whaanau whispering, and they wont tell her why. Shes ditched school to help her aunty clean houseseven 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 maamaas bedroom.STAR is home for the first time in years, and hes worn the same clothes for days. Everything feels unfamiliar: the karakia, his nephews, the house that he grew up in. Hes too scared to tell his family that hes 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,Poorharais a journey of epic proportionsa poignant, expansive and darkly funny first novel written by a true poorhara.