Piripai

Piripai is natural history as prose poetry. It is a story of place time and a subtle coming of age on the sand dunes between the river and the sea. The book is structured around twenty-six birds that inhabited Piripai and ordered according to the time of year beginning in spring and ending in winter. It is suffused with observation and memory conveyed in a stripped-back style that both evokes and abstracts. Through the eyes of the books three characters - the girl the woman and the man - we learn about their family their culture their birds and the rough beautiful land they call home.