Strait Men and Other Stories

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"These pieces are richly strange, often funny and poignant, full of memories and contradictions, magic and rationalism, romance and science. Reading them you climb over peaks and fault-lines, leap between realism and expressionism, negotiate mysterious deaths and strange obsessions, and travel from Aotearoa to its antipodes. Stories are disputed and rights are stolen; danger lurks at the edges, sometimes in comic guise. 'Morning will determine whether scene from thriller or screwball comedy,' reads one character's journal entry: the same, Strait Men suggests, could be said of life. Emily Perkins