They who Do Not Grieve | Sia Figiel
Reminiscent of Kerii Hulme's "The Bone People, this fictional "Coming of Age in Samoa, weaves together the voices of three generations of Samoan women from two families, juxtaposing the traditional and the modern, storytelling and real life, the familiar and the strange, the hilarious and the grotesque. Their dream worlds and realities intermingle, just as the histories of each generation run through the next. At the centre of the novel is the Samoan woman's tattoo, the malu, believed to be brought from Fiji by Siamese twins in one of the founding myths of Samoa.
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