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KŌHINE, by Colleen Maria Lenihan (Huia, $25)

the debut collection of interconnected short stories by Colleen Maria Lenihan, is a beguiling, stylish and heady mix of outsiders adrift in Tokyo; Japanese idol girls; week-long benders in Toronto, Thailand and Bali; rongoā healers; fractured romances; high-stakes poker games; matriarchs in rural Aotearoa;

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