By Albert Wendt

Albert Wendt’s new number of brief tales explores the character of kinfolk, culture and tradition in the course of the eyes of these doubtless stuck among the realities of recent modern lifestyles and the ancestral ties in their background. With a deft contact, he attracts us into his characters’ lives and with equivalent elements knowledge and wit, he exposes them to us. it is a masterful meditation at the ties that bind humans jointly throughout time and place.

The unpublished manuscript of Ancestry was once total winner of the college of the South Pacific Press Literature Prize in 2011.

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