On Coming Home

· BWB Texts Libro 28 · Bridget Williams Books
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The declamatory return; a homeland as a ‘wearying enigma’. This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that’s home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it’s also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander?

Award-winning writer Paula Morris confronts long-standing fears of what it means to return home. Is ambition and adventure being traded for a ‘forever home’ of commitments and compromises? Will she still belong? And will the belonging impose its own restrictions? Seeking answers in the words of writer exiles, Morris’s returning takes us back to her childhood streets and ancestral voyages and on, beyond, to the lost New Zealand worlds of her writing.

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Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novels, published by Penguin New Zealand, include: Queen of Beauty, Hibiscus Coast, Trendy But Casual, and Rangatira. Rangatira won the fiction categories of the New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2012. Paula’s short stories have been widely published and she has written four novels for young adults.

Paula holds degrees from universities in New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, including a DPhil from the University of York and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Since 2003 she’s taught creative writing at universities, including Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of Sheffield in England. She now teaches at the University of Auckland.

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