The Intentions Book
By (Author) Gigi Fenster
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
3rd January 2012
New Zealand
General
Fiction
823.3
Paperback
308
While Morris Goldberg waits in the night for news of his daughter, Rachel, missing in the bush, he remembers his life and marriage to Sadie. A tender and funny first novel.
Gigi Fenster has made a standout debut . . . the writing is tight, the protagonist memorable and the revelations stitched with a subtle finesse." Paula Green, poet and reviewer, New Zealand Herald
Gigi Fenster worked as a law lecturer and construction lawyer in South Africa before moving to New Zealand. Her short stories have been published in various literary journals in New Zealand and abroad, and her writing has been translated into Telugu and published in an Indian daily newspaper.