{"product_id":"this-compulsion-in-us-b-format","title":"This Compulsion in Us (B Format)","description":"\u003cp class=\"s9\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s6\"\u003eWinner of the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Award for General Non-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s6\"\u003eF\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s6\"\u003eiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s9\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eTina \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eMakereti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e stands at the foot of her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003emounga\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e and pays careful attention to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003etohu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e. With her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003etūpuna\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e at her elbow she casts around for home, meets taonga in museums, and writes her way towards her father. She walks through the darkness with others, in awe of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e Kore, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003ePō\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e Ao Mārama—a universe of potential being, dark and light. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s9\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eIn these frank and moving essays, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eMakereti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e explores her many intersecting lives as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003ew\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003ea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003ehine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eMāori – teacher, daughter, traveller, parent – and a past that is as alive and changeful as the present moment. From the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003ewāhine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e who have shown her ways of being, to the experience of living with an alcoholic, undergoing breast cancer treatment and recognising how art returns power to survivors of colonialism, she asks—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s9\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eWhat if we could transform the events that made us who we are? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s10\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eWhat if there were a way back to the beginning? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s10\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s10\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e‘Writing is an act of defiance and bravery. Tina has the courage to write what scares her, to put it all out there, carefully, eloquently, and by doing this she makes sense of so much: a sharply unconventional upbringing, her reconnecting with her Māori mother and beloved grandmother at sixteen, and her life as a young mother living overseas. A skilled, poignant and compelling read.’—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eNgāhuia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003eAwekōtuku\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s14\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s8\"\u003e'This is such an important book. Beautiful. Completely compassionate, utterly necessary.’ —Ingrid Horrocks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s16\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003eThis book opens up the world—the gritty, hungry, paradoxical world. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003eLike the best essayists do, Tina opens her world to us in the most personal of ways, then out and out again so that your view is much \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003emuch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e bigger than when you began.’ —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003eTusiata\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s15\"\u003e Avia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s16\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s16\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s16\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s20\"\u003eTina \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s20\"\u003eMakereti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eĀtiawa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e, Ngāti Tūwharetoa,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eNgāti \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eRangatahi-Matakore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e, Pākehā) is a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eprize-winning writer and teacher of creative\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003ewriting at the International Institute of Modern \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eLetters, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eTe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e Herenga Waka—Victoria University of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eWellington. Her novels include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003eWhere the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003eRēkohu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003eBone Sings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003eThe Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003eThe Mires\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e, shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eNew Zealand Book Awards. She co-edited \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003eBlack\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s22\"\u003eMarks on the White Page\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e, an anthology that\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003ecelebrates Māori and Pasifika writing, with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eWiti\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eIhimaera. In 2022, her essay ‘Lumpectomy’ won\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003ethe Landfall Essay Prize, and in 2016 her short\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003estory ‘Black Milk’ won the Commonwealth Writers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003eShort Story Prize for the Pacific Region.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"s16\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s21\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003eCover image: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003eTā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003emoko\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003eHinerewa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e Crofts, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003eHinerewa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003eTā\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003eMoko\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e Studio, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003eOtautahi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s18\"\u003e; photograph: Ebony Lamb\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52509360521527,"sku":"9781776923359","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0928\/5048\/7607\/files\/9781776923359.jpg?v=1782097661","url":"https:\/\/teherengawakapress.co.nz\/products\/this-compulsion-in-us-b-format","provider":"Te Herenga Waka University Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}