'This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pkeh. Every Pkeh becomes a Pkeh in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Mori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pkeh and other New Zealanders curious about their sense of identity and about the ambivalences we Pkeh often experience in our relationships with Mori.'
A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pkeh and Mori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands.