About the event
Join Unity Books, Āporo Press & Whitireia Publishing for the launch of the highly anticipated novel, Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent (Ngati Mahanga, Ngapuhi)!
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Rita considered the dead. Shut her eyes. Rolled their names around her brain. Stacked each person in order like folded laundry, warm and crisp from the sun. She wondered how her name would sound amongst them.
In the rural reaches of Auckland, the women of the eclectic Gordon family gather for Christmas. They may push each other’s buttons, but know precisely when to offer tea (or a tipple). Rita, the 50-year-old baby of the family, is planning to tell them she has cancer. Drifting between past and present, she considers the lives of women in their community and reckons with what it all means for her future and her family.
Featuring elderly lesbians, twins who aren’t twins, and several dogs named Roger, Hoods Landing is about shoddy pasts, ambiguous futures and the imperfect bonds that tie family together.
Book Launch: Hoods Landing by Laura Vincent (Ngati Mahanga, Ngapuhi)
Friday 31st October, from 6pm
Unity Books Wellington
All welcome
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