On Coming Home

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title On Coming Home
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paula Morris
SeriesBWB Texts
Series part Volume No. 28
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Category/GenreMemoirs
ISBN/Barcode 9780908321117
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bridget Williams Books
Imprint Bridget Williams Books
NZ Release Date 9 March 2015
Publication Country New Zealand

Description

'The declamatory return; a homeland as a "wearying enigma". This all makes sense to me. The New Zealand that's home to me may be a place of sheep and rugby and number-eight wire, whatever that is, but it's also none of those things. Am I still a New Zealander?'Award-winning writer Paula Morris confronts long-standing fears of what it means to return home. Is ambition and adventure being traded for a 'forever home' of commitments and compromises? Will she still belong? And will the belonging impose its own restrictions? Morris seeks answers in the words of writer exiles as she narrates her own return to New Zealand. Now a settler not a visitor, she questions incisively the very idea of 'belonging'.