A review by lidia7
We Are the Ocean: Selected Works by Epeli Hau'ofa

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The book is mostly nonfiction (essays and speeches which were great and informative.) After that first half of the book I took a long break from the book when there's some fiction. I did enjoy the short story The Glorious Pacific Way, the absurdism of bureaucracy and the critique of both colonialism and autocolonialism. The other fiction are the two excerpts from a novel Kisses in the Nederends which I skipped because it's not something I care to read (about 15% of the book). The interview about Kisses in the Nederends is worth a read. There's a bit more nonfiction, mostly about the monarchy and then the book ends with a short narrative poem which is explained. 
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