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Checkerboard Hill by Jade Kake

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Checkerboard Hill

Author
Jade Kake
Narrator
Jade Kake
Publisher
Huia Publishers
Publish Date
31 October 2023
Run Time
8 hours 48 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories
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Checkerboard Hill is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships. When a family member dies in Australia, Ria flies from New Zealand and returns to the family and home in Australia she suddenly left decades before as a teenager. Waiting for her return are her husband and son in New Zealand. Neither family has met the other, and Ria has always kept her Māori, Australian, New Zealand identities and lives separate. But the family tensions, unfinished arguments, connections to places and meeting of former friends, lead Ria to revisit her memories and reflect on the social and cultural tensions and racism she experienced, and the decisions she made. Produced by Te Reo Irirangi o Ngāti Hine with the support of Publishers Association of New Zealand | Te Rau o Tākupu."

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Author
Jade Kake
Narrator
Jade Kake
Duration
8 hours 48 minutes
Release Date
31 October 2023
ISBN
9781775509813
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Huia Publishers
Genre
Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories

Synopsis

Checkerboard Hill is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships. When a family member dies in Australia, Ria flies from New Zealand and returns to the family and home in Australia she suddenly left decades before as a teenager. Waiting for her return are her husband and son in New Zealand. Neither family has met the other, and Ria has always kept her Māori, Australian, New Zealand identities and lives separate. But the family tensions, unfinished arguments, connections to places and meeting of former friends, lead Ria to revisit her memories and reflect on the social and cultural tensions and racism she experienced, and the decisions she made. Produced by Te Reo Irirangi o Ngāti Hine with the support of Publishers Association of New Zealand | Te Rau o Tākupu."

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