Festival of Miracles

This is a fabulous collection of stories from a young and new M?ori writer.

She finds cosmopolitan material for her stories from the length and breadth of New Zealand.

Her words are gem-like observations of lives on the edge, and her characters are rich and varied: bikies, UFO enthusiasts, circus workers, tattoo artists, mail-order brides.

To read Alice Tawhai's works is to see the occasional despair and the often-uplifting poetry of many lives, and many readers will be wiser for the experience.