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Black Ice Matter
Paperback Edition: 1
This collection of short stories explores connections between extremes of heat and cold. Sometimes this is spatial or geographical; sometimes it is metaphorical. Sometimes it involves juxtapositions of time; sometimes heat appears where only ice is expected. In the stories, a woman is caught between
traditional Fijian ways and the brutality of the military dictatorship; a glaciology researcher falls into a crevasse and confronts the unexpected; two women lose children in freak shooting accidents; a young child in a Barbie Doll sweatshop dreams of a different life; secondary school girls struggle with secrets about an addicted janitor; and two women take a deathly trip through a glacier melt stream. These are some of the unpredictable stories in this collection that follow themes of ice and glaciers in the heat of the South Pacific and take us into unusual lives and explorations.
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Featured in the 19 September 2016 New Zealand Newsletter.
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Featured in the Spring 2016 Great Reads newsletter.
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Pages : 189
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Publication date : 2016-08-26
Subjects: Fiction, NZ Fiction, NZ Short Stories