Superb collection of old and new

Published date17 April 2024
Publication titleWhanganui Midweek
by Patricia Grace, Penguin Random House, $37

Anything Patricia Grace writes is a great read, so that’s a given for this collection of both new and previously published short stories.

She’s one of our most celebrated fiction authors in New Zealand, publishing six novels and seven short story collections and winning several literature prizes. Here she deftly weaves myths and contemporary Māori life into lovely stories, the first time they’ve been brought together.

The stories are in three parts — pre-colonial Māori life and mystical plunges into animal and...

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