Sally Blundell reviews You Are Here by Whiti Hereaka and Peata Larkin for NZ Listener:
‘You - are - here.
On a location map in a park or reserve, these three simple words can be mystifying: reliant, it seems, on at least some instinctive directional knowledge.
In the book of this title, by writer and barrister Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Tuhourangi), these words are an equally ambiguous portal to an intimate conversation about place, whakapapa, language; an affirmation of belonging that is both forceful and compassionate.’
Read the rest of the review here.
