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The Bone People by Keri Hulme
5.0

Too gorgeous, too moving for words. I can't imagine a more deep-cutting and compassionate story about trauma and healing.

And Hulme isn't afraid to love words for their own sake, in English and in Maori, in the way that I unfortunately learned was "weird" when I was a kid and have a hard time returning to in my own writing. This gives me some courage to F it and write in the language of the soul.