Fishing for Maui
Isa Pearl Ritchie
Paperback
(Te Ra Aroha Press, June 25, 2018)
A novel about food, whÄnau and mental illness.Valerie reads George Eliot to get to sleep â just to take her mind off worries over her patients, her children, their father and the next family dinner. Elena is so obsessed with health, traditional food, her pregnancy and her blog she doesnât notice that her partner, Malcolm the ethicist, is getting himself into a moral dilemma of his own making.Evie wants to save the world one chicken at a time. Meanwhile her boyfriend, Michael, is on a quest to reconnect with his MÄori heritage and discover hisown identity. Rosa is eight years old and lost in her own fantasy world, but sheâs the only one who cantell somethingâs not right.