Aukati

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Alexia is a law student escaping the Greek family that stifles her, and Isaiah is a young Mori returning home to find the family hes lost. Cut loose from their own cultures, they have volunteered to help Isaiahs Taranaki iwi get rid of the fracking thats devastating their land and water. The deeper Alexia and Isaiah go into the fight, the closer they get to understanding the different worlds they inhabit. But when a protest march becomes violent a boundary is crossed, and they need to decide where they stand and fast. Its clear the police have been tipped off, and the activists gathered at the marae suspect theyre being watched or, worse, there is an informant in the group. Can Alexia and Isaiah be trusted And more can they trust themselves

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Michalia Arathimos is a Greek-New Zealand writer who lives in Melbourne with her partner and two sons. She is a prize-winning author of short stories and essays, and won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition in 2016. She works as a freelance editor and is the fiction reviewer for Melbourne Magazine Overland.