The Mires

The Mires by Tina Makereti


ISBN
9781761153693
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Dimensions
153 x 234mm

Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture; your gardens and windows and hope. But water can be the foot of an elephant, the horns of a moose, a herd of buffalo running from a lion, water can be the kauri falling in the forest, a two-tonne truck, a whole stadium filled with 50,000 people, screaming …  Water is life, and water can be death.
 
Three women give birth in different countries and different decades. In the near future, they become neighbours in a coastal town in Aotearoa New Zealand. Single parent Keri has her hands full with four-year-old tearaway Walty and teen Wairere, a strange and gifted child, who always picks up on
stuff that isn’t hers to worry about. They live next door to Janet, a white woman with an opinion about everything, and new arrival Sera, whose family are refugees from ecological devastation in Europe.
 
When Janet’s son Conor arrives home without warning, sporting a fresh buzzcut and a new tattoo, the quiet tension between the neighbours grows, but no one suspects just how extreme Conor has become. No one except Wairere, who can feel the danger in their midst, and the swamp beneath their street, watching and waiting.
 
The Mires is a tender and fierce novel that asks what we do when faced with things we don’t understand. Is our impulse to destroy or connect?
 
Christmas Catalogue 2024 x BookFrenzy
29.74
RRP: $34.99
15% off RRP



Instore Price: $34.99
Enter your Postcode or Suburb to view availability and delivery times.
If ordered before the 9th of December, this product should arrive by Christmas

Other Titles by Tina Makereti


You might also like

Here One Moment
34.99
22.99
34% Off
Intermezzo
34.99
22.99
34% Off
Blue Sisters
34.99
24.99
29% Off
Sanctuary
32.99
14.99
55% Off
The Diamond Hunter
32.99
14.99
55% Off
The Fallen Woman
34.99
22.00
37% Off
My Favourite Mistake
34.99
22.99
34% Off
Birds Of A Feather
32.99
14.99
55% Off
Dreamland
34.99
14.99
57% Off
By Any Other Name
34.99
22.99
34% Off
Lola In The Mirror
32.99
19.99
39% Off
The Two Lost Mountains
39.99
14.99
63% Off
Juice
49.99
36.99
26% Off
The Heist
34.99
14.99
57% Off
The Women
34.99
24.99
29% Off
Joy
32.99
19.99
39% Off
The Heart Is A Star
32.99
14.99
55% Off
River Song
39.99
26.99
33% Off

RRP refers to the Recommended Retail Price as set out by the original publisher at time of release.
The RRP set by overseas publishers may vary to those set by local publishers due to exchange rates and shipping costs.
Due to our competitive pricing, we may have not sold all products at their original RRP.