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Afakasi Woman
2012
First Published
4.37
Average Rating
132
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A collection of twenty-four short stories from "A Real Samoan Woman." Sometimes funny, often poignant and always honest - this collection of award-winning short fiction is one woman's insight into life as a contemporary Pacific woman who is 'too brown to be white and too white to be brown.'

Avg Rating
4.37
Number of Ratings
248
5 STARS
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Author

Lani Young
Lani Young
Author · 16 books

Lani Young is an international bestselling author of YA fantasy, contemporary romance and literary fiction. The 2018 Pacific Laureate, her work is inspired by the diverse mythology of Oceania and the richness of her cultural heritage as a Samoan and Maori woman. When she's not writing (or reading), she's baking cookies, talking to dogs, and trying to do triathlons. She lives in Samoa and New Zealand with her Ironman husband and four children.

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