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A review by littlebookterror
Tahuri by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.75
it's so easy to forget that phones and the internet just were not a thing 3o years ago...
I won't lie, I could have done with a little more details to set the stage whenever a new short story started cause I felt a little lost as to the who-what-where each time. But I also loved how utterly focused the book was on girls and women, sisters, aunts and grandmothers, female friendship and lesbian desire. Its description of Tahuri looking at girls felt transcendent.
My favourite were probably "After the Game" where the players go skinny dipping and while telling a story about some pakeha taking pictures without asking, history repeats itself with a better outcome (loved the comraderie) and "Three for Kui" about family and floods.
(I only remember a CW for "Tahuri the Runaway" for SA and consensual sex with a different person. Minor use of racial and homophobic slurs in "red Jersey".)
I won't lie, I could have done with a little more details to set the stage whenever a new short story started cause I felt a little lost as to the who-what-where each time. But I also loved how utterly focused the book was on girls and women, sisters, aunts and grandmothers, female friendship and lesbian desire. Its description of Tahuri looking at girls felt transcendent.
My favourite were probably "After the Game" where the players go skinny dipping and while telling a story about some pakeha taking pictures without asking, history repeats itself with a better outcome (loved the comraderie) and "Three for Kui" about family and floods.
(I only remember a CW for "Tahuri the Runaway" for SA and consensual sex with a different person. Minor use of racial and homophobic slurs in "red Jersey".)