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Electric City and Other Stories
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These are stories about ordinary folk, largely Maori, leading ordinary lives.Electric City and Other Stories (1987), adds to the group of stories in The Dream Sleepers , centred on the girl Mereana, which Grace originally thought ‘would add up to a novel, but they didn’t’. The volume’s more successful stories are the darker adult ones, such as ‘Hospital’, with its harsh, hallucinatory version of childbirth and surgery, and its close on a despondent and aimless journey (‘not to know what’s round this bend, the next, the next one after that’), thus ending where Cousins begins.
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When Gravity Snaps
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Finalist, Montana New Zealand Book Awards, 2003When Gravity Snaps but so, too, do smart urban parties, the pettiness of school and university hierarchies, the perspectives of elderly men and women with long, rich lives behind them, the search for human connection and warmth in an often capricious world. Funny, moving, challenging and memorable, this
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