Sixteen short stories from home-grown literary heroes, established contemporary authors, and award-winning emerging writers are brought together in this new collection. Exploring identity, activism awareness, coming-of-age, society, and family from the Aotearoa New Zealand perspective. Includes:

Foreword by Mandy Hager  Baby Doll  by Gina Cole Fitu  by Lani Wendt Young  Out of Zone  by Rajorshi Chakraborti  Tent on the Home Ground  by Witi Ihimaera The Queen’s chain  by Anahera Gildea  The Lake and the River by Elsie Locke Effigies of Family Christmas by Owen Marshall Free as a bird by David Hill The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield Letters from Whetu by Patricia Grace A Good Boy by Frank Sargeson Days of Our Lives by J.P. Pomare  the names in the garden by Tracey Slaughter Nineteen Seconds by Russell Boey Atul by Nithya Narayanan Gutting by Ting J. Yiu

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