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Author:   Barbara Sumner
Publisher:   Massey University Press
Imprint:   Massey University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 11.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 17.90cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780995135406

ISBN 10:   0995135401
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   10 September 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Better call Maysie - 9 Cold enough to cut your hair - 19 God fights back - 27 The Australia? - 35 Another kind of memory - 43 The changeling - 51 And the dolphins walked on water - 59 The opposite of Easter - 67 You are an electromagnetic field - 75 Abraham and Isaac went up a hill - 83 Husband, father, painter, paperhanger - 91 Wondering where the lions are - 99 How many times can you change your name? - 107 A cosmological view of time - 115 Hear the cry for home - 123 Oh so lucky - 131 Your limbic brain on relinquishment - 139 Sort of an orphan - 147 Your phantom baby - 155 Clarence Street forever - 163 The snob - 171 The cloth mummy - 179 Spooky action at a distance - 187 Game of statues - 195 Land of light - 203 All reasons, preferably special ones - 209 You are your DNA - 219 Notes about adoption - 225 Notes - 233 Further reading - 235 Acknowledgements - 236 About the author - 238

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It packs a wallop. -- John Campbell * TVNZ * A rare window into the inner questions one asks around identity, family, right and wrong, which, if you are anything like me, will leave you reflecting on your own journey for some time to come. -- Royna Ngahuia Fifield-Hakaraia * Shepherdess * Barbara Sumner’s Tree of Strangers is, through her sharp intellect and exquisitely cinematic writing, a book of ... social and literary importance. -- Caroline Barron * Kete *

'It packs a wallop' - John Campbell, TVNZ; 'A rare window into the inner questions one asks around identity, family, right and wrong, which, if you are anything like me, will leave you reflecting on your own journey for some time to come.' - Royna Ngahuia Fifield-Hakaraia, Shepherdess; 'Barbara Sumner's Tree of Strangers is, through her sharp intellect and exquisitely cinematic writing, a book of ... social and literary importance.' - Caroline Barron, Kete.

Author Information

Barbara Sumner has worked in film and journalism, and manages Cloud South Pictures with her husband, Tom Burstyn. In 2009 This Way of Life, their feature documentary about a family living simply in the Ruahine Ranges, won the Berlinale Generation Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar, and won awards at film festivals around the world. In 2020 Barbara is a graduate of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. She lives in Napier.

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