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251 pages.
Contents: How to survive a shipwreck -- A Titanic climate allegory -- Burning homefires -- Tuakana-Teina dialogues -- The Poi-gnancy of whakapapa -- Pathways to freedom -- Who gets to be an 'Ordinary New Zealander'? -- The real Slim Shady -- A thing of the Heart -- Kapa Haka -- Once were Maunga -- One life: a song for my brother -- Tough love (A stitch in time) -- Gone bush -- Slowing the sun -- Riding the tide home -- Kōrero pono -- Rock bottom -- Life's too short for burning bridges -- A wrerter's legacy --Mō āke tonu -- Hands fluent in silence -- If only -- Shifting metal -- The bend in the river where the driftwood collects -- A single light on the Mahau.
Summary: Overwhelmed by the complexity of climate change, Nadine Hura sets out to find a language that connects more deeply with the environmental crisis. But what begins as a journalistic quest to understand the science takes an abrupt and introspective turn following the death of her brother. In the midst of grief, Hura works through science, pūrākau, poetry and back again. Seeking to understand climate change in relation to whenua and people, she asks: how should we respond to what has been lost? Her many-sided essays explore environmental degradation, social disconnection and Indigenous reclamation, insisting that any meaningful response must be grounded in Te Tiriti and anti-colonialism. Slowing the Sun is a karanga to those who have passed on, as well as to the living, to hold on to ancestral knowledge for future generations. (Back cover)