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Tauhou by Ktuku Titihuia Nuttall

Tauhou by Ktuku Titihuia Nuttall
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Tauhouis an inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities by Ktuku Titihuia Nuttall, a writer of Mori and Coast Salish descent. This innovative hybrid novel envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa New Zealand that sit side by side in the ocean.

Each chapter is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores.

In a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women, the two sides of this family, Coast Salish and Mori, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism.Tauhouis an ardent search for answers, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home, to return to the land and sea. (From House of Anansi Press)

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