In our own backyard / Anne Kayes.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Auckland, New Zealand : bateman Books, 2021Whakaahuatanga: 290 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- volume
- 9781988538747
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Young adult fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus YA | Young adult fiction | KAYE (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | Wātea | i2212246 |
It's March 2020 and Liza, her husband and two teenage children are at home in Auckland in level-four lockdown due to Covid-19. Reflections with her family around the dining table inspire Liza to reflect on another challenging time in history - nearly forty years before - when the South African Springbok rugby team toured New Zealand. Casting her memory back to 1981, Liza recalls her life as a fifteen-year-old, including her first love, friendships, first-hand experiences of racism, and what it means and what it costs to find your voice and use it. In Our Own Backyard is a startling, confronting portrait of a society divided. Anne Kayes has written a masterful YA novel that considers questions of human equality that are as pertinent in the twenty-first century as they were in 1981.
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