{"product_id":"poorhara-b-format","title":"Poorhara (B format)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eIt is 178 years after colonisation . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eErin can hear the whaanau whispering, and they won’t tell her why. She’s ditched school to help her aunty clean houses – even though she has a full-time job looking after all the moko. But no one cares, and soon she will be picked clean, like the bones in her maamaa’s bedroom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eStar is home for the first time in years, and he’s worn the same clothes for days. Everything feels unfamiliar: the karakia, his nephews, the house that he grew up in. He’s too scared to tell his family that he’s bombing back at uni. And the past is an affliction, a gently rising tide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eTogether, the cousins escape. Free-wheeling across the countryside in a car without a warrant, they cast their net widely. Their family mythologies, heartaches and rifts will surface, and amidst them the glint of possibility: a return to the whenua where it all began.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eSet in the confines of a 1994 Daihatsu Mira,\u003cem\u003e Poorhara\u003c\/em\u003e is a journey of epic proportions – poignant, expansive and darkly funny.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘Rahurahu’s book \u003cem\u003ePoorhara\u003c\/em\u003e blew me away.’ —Miriama Kamo, \u003cem\u003eNZ Herald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘A hilarious and heartbreaking debut’ —essa may ranapiri, inaugural winner of the Keri Hulme Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘This is a novel to get excited about, a compulsive, absorbing, cinematic work of beauty.’ —Amber French, \u003cem\u003eNorth \u0026amp; South\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e‘Rahurahu takes what could otherwise be a heavy story told in a depressing world, and gives it the grace and love that it deserves.’ —Sam Brooks, \u003cem\u003eDramatic Pause\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMidden Rahurahu\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ngaati Rahurahu, Ngaati Tahu-Ngaati Whaoa) is a writer who was raised by taangata turi. They were a co-editor of \u003cem\u003eTe Rito o te Harakeke\u003c\/em\u003e, an anthology of Maaori voices for Ihumaatao. They have a Master's in Creative Writing from the IIML, where they won the Modern Letters Fiction Prize, and they were also shortlisted for the Michael Gifkins Prize. \u003cem\u003ePoorhara\u003c\/em\u003e won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction at the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eCover design: Todd Atticus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53115610071351,"sku":"9781776923342","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923342.jpg?v=1792544318","url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/products\/poorhara-b-format","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}