Welcome to Litsy!

The people in this wonderful collection of short stories are “under the guardianship of Ranginui the Sky Parent.” They are the unwanted & the dispossessed. The genres cover a broad range, reminding me of Lesley Nneka Arimah‘s work. My faves are the two funniest: Sun‘s Marbles (a myth retelling) and Ngati Kangaru (colonialism turned on its head). I picked this up because I loved Grace‘s novel Potiki & wasn‘t disappointed. #Indigenous #NZauthor

“What are you doing today?”
“Fundraising.”
“A raffle or something?”
“Chocolate cake.”
“You know that gateway,” she said, “they‘re making it too flash. Don‘t have to be that big & flash & cost so much. A carved pou each side, painted arch would be all right. Neat & tidy. No, they have to go for front & back carvings, up down & sideways, all those tongues poking in all directions as if money comes down with rain. How much a ticket?”
“A dollar.”

When Maui booby-trapped Sun then clobbered him over the head with a hunk of bone shaped like two parts of a bootmaker‘s last, he won, for all time, high praise as the pioneer of daylight saving.
-Sun‘s Marbles

#NZauthors to take back to Canada. My book haul from Hard to Find Bookshop.