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Poorhara
About this book
ERIN can hear the whaanau whispering, and they won' t tell her why. She' s ditched school to help her aunty clean housesā 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 proportionsā a poignant, expansive and darkly funny first novel written by a true poorhara.
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Yes, you can access Poorhara by Michelle Rahurahu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literature General. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- THE HOUSE THAT MAKITAANARA BUILT
- NO LAMPS BURNING AND NO WAKA AT SEA
- THE HOME IS A HEARTāITS CORNERS CANNOT BE SEEN
- DONāT CRY OVER A BROKEN CALABASH
- PLUCK THE BIRD OF FEATHERS SO IT MAY ROOST FOREVERMORE
- A TOKI TO GRIND
- CHIEFS CANNOT LIVE OFF KOORERO ALONE
- A TANI WHA AT EVERY BAR
- A TISSUE, A TISSUE
- FIGHT LIKE AN OCTOPUS OR DIE A SHARK
- TE KORE, TE POO, TE KORE ANOO
- LET SLIP TE KURII KI TE POO
- I SHALL NEVER BE LOST, FOR THE HARRIERāS EYES ARE ON ME
- THERE IS FOOD AT THE END OF MY HANDS
- ALTHOUGH IT IS SMALL . . . . . . . DONāT ASK FOR MORE
- LIFT YOURSELF BY YOUR BOOTSTRAPS AND YOUR FEET WILL TOUCH THE CLOUDS
- HOLD FAST TO THE WORDS OF YOUR MASTER /OR/ IT IS THE ROLE OF CHILDREN TO BREAK THEIR PARENTSā HEARTS
- SING BELLBIRD, SING
- KA PUTA . . .
- THE CREDITS!!!!!