Small holes in the silence

The feast of stories is varied - urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. In Busy Lines, an elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers firewood on the beach while the appliances in her house fall to bits one by one. In Love Story, Willie falls in love with a statue. In Stepping Out, Great-grandmother reveals how she chose her husband-to-be, both of them. In Moon Story, Rona curses the Moon. In Pa Wars, Petina tells her old school friend Raycharles that she's looking for a father for her baby. The thread that runs through all the stories, though, is Grace's huge sympathy for the underdog and the perspective of the outsider. The world she depicts is often a stark and unsentimental place, in which people struggle against ageing, rejection, violence and betrayal.

Year

2011

Language

English

Publisher

ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited

Editions

1

ISBN

9781459624672

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