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Every society has its own stories – old stories, but very importantly, new stories too, that give identity to the self and explain that particular world. If there are no books which tell us about ourselves, but tell us only about others, that makes you invisible in the world of literature. That is dangerous.

— Patricia Grace

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This first part of the story is about two sisters, Ngarua and Maraenohonoho, who quarrelled over a canoe.

beginning of Dogside Story (2001)

The city was a great loom weaving its tangles and tufts of people into haphazard multicoloured fabric.

Mutuwhenua : the moon sleeps (1978)

Autumn bends the lights of summer and spreads evening skies with reds and golds. These colours are taken up by falling leaves which jiggle at the fingertips of small-handed winds.

Salt cures.
Sea washes. It cleans.
Expanse enlivens the spirit, frees the mind.

Chappy (2015)

Why is it that one set of stories is called "mythology", and another set of stories is called "the truth"?

Interview (1999)

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