Genre
Fiction
Young Adult
Bugs
Whiti Hereaka
$25.00
$9.99
HONOUR AWARD, Young Adult Fiction, New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, 2014
Storylines Notable Book Award, Senior Fiction, 2014
'It’s always been Jez and me. Me and Jez, that’s how it has always been. So what did you expect? Did you think that maybe you’d find out what happened to us in the future, me and Jez, Jez and me? Have you been following along, ticking things off check, check, check, to find out who got their happy ending? 'Bugs is about the unfolding lives of three young people in their last year of school in small-town New Zealand. Life is slow, and it seems not much happens in town or in Jez and Bugs’s lives. But when Stone Cold arrives, the three come to different conclusions about how to deal with being trapped in a small town and at the bottom of the heap.
Pages
242
Language
English
Publication Date
September 2, 2013
Dimensions
138 x 210 mm
ISBN (Soft Cover)
9781775501336
"Hereaka's writing is beyond moving. It's powerful, confident, fresh. It reminded me of the first time I ever read Witi Ihimaera, Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Keri Hulme - it's like a veil is lifted, and I am finally reading the world as I see it, as I actually experience it."