The bone people Hulme, Keri. creator text Psychological fiction. Romance fiction. nyu 2010 monographic eng
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[x], 546 pages ; 20 cm. In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor-a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Māori (New Zealand people) Fiction Commitment (Psychology) Fiction Racially mixed people Fiction Social isolation Fiction Women painters Fiction Mute persons Fiction New Zealand Fiction Shipwrecks Fiction Widowers Fiction 9780330485418 0330485415 DLC 110218 20241108112737.0