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Maori Boy: A Memoir of Childhood | Witi Ihimaera
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This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling memoir, packed with stories from the formative years of this much-loved writer. Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller - one critic calling him one of our 'finest and most memorable'. Some of his best stories, however, are about his own life. This honest, stirring work tells of the family and community into which Ihimaera was born, of his early life in rural New Zealand, of family secrets, of facing anguish and challenges, and of laughter and love. As Ihimaera recounts the myths that formed his early imagination, he also reveals the experiences from real life that wriggled into his fiction. Alive with an inventive, stimulating narrative and vividly portrayed relatives, this memoir is engrossing, entertaining and moving, but, more than this, it is also a vital record of what it means to grow up Maori.
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Witi Ihimaera had a kd lang/Anne Murray thing going on with bare feet on stage. He explained that it was to keep his shoes dry for his flight back to NZ later today. (It was raining outside.) Next to Witi is Helen Humphreys; this event about memoir was FANTASTIC! #VWF2017

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"I would have done anything for my father." Me too Witi, me too.

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