Book Review: Poorhara
January 31, 2025
This is a novel about familial tensions, the desperation caused by poverty and how to be yourself when so much is expected of you.
This is a novel about familial tensions, the desperation caused by poverty and how to be yourself when so much is expected of you.
This memoir provided me with a beautiful escape. I needed a calm harbour and this understated memoir was perfect.
This journal always pulls me out of a scholarly reading rut and reinvigorates ideas of postcolonial leftist theory with creativity.
The writing is so courageously honest while sneakily feeding you an NZ history lesson through a series of intimate experiences.
This was a luminous read – descriptions of the natural world, history, and character’s inner voices are related with sensitivity and vivacity.
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When she reflects on the good in life, it is hard not to smile, and small rich joyful sentences peek out unexpectedly all through the book.
Fragmented, poetic and experimental – the kind of book you’ll want to pore over multiple times to sink back into.
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It has a refined design with great photographs, with exposed beams and interesting combinations of textures and materials.
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Sections of the book are punctuated by poems and photographs, one of which confirms that, yes, in 1969 Professor Ricketts was very cool.
This collection is vulnerable and precise, travelling through and between the streets of Christchurch like a supercut of sweet memories.
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Billed as a memoir but reads easily as a collection of essays on lived experiences, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Affecting, politically pertinent and visually pleasing, PUHIA is a publication I read immediately as it arrives in-store.
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