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It's hardly surprising that she should be drawn in her writing to the marginalised, the dislocated, the migratory. Her characters are continually on the move, with cultures riotously intermingled and the notion of home problematic. (Iain Sharp, Sunday Star-Times) Read more reviews or Review in NZ Books, 2008 |
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How to Build Your Dream Garden Year one. At the end of a dusty road, find a malarial swamp. Drain and fill with earth. Get sick. Curse the day you came. Year two. Construct a wooden cabin with shells for doorknobs, mist for glass. Lie and listen to the waves. Remember, you were sick before you came. Year three. Plant seeds. The earth muffles the past with leaves and roots. Now wait for someone to come and understand. Year four. The coloured birds of paradise arrive, the iguanas balance on the plants. Lost strangers come and never leave. Smile knowingly. Year ten. Stop counting, isn't this why you came? Now dream to the beat of waves the only dream that's left, dream that the garden goes to seed, the iguanas grow to monsters and gore the strangers in the dust. The locals talk for generations. And the sea, the sea takes care of everything. | |||
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