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katestar_p 's review for:
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
What a deeply complicated book, & how beautifully written. The rhythm & song of the words slip into poetry, portraying situations & people both broken & sublime, crushing my heart, rousing my righteous anger, asking me to look differently at something horrific, whether I agree with it or not. Intergenerational trauma, alcoholism, rage directed physically at a small child, disconnect from family & culture & land, & then a level of healing almost unimaginable (unbelievable?). Probably why I had to forget almost every detail of the book from when I first read it 10 years ago, before I could read it again. Am I happy to have reread it? I’m too unsettled to know.