TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gnanalingam, Brannavan,
TI  - Sprigs
SN  - 9780473526382
U1  - NZ823.3 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - [Wellington], Aotearoa/New Zealand : 
PB  - Lawrence & Gibson, 
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Private schools
KW  - Rugby Union football
KW  - School sports
KW  - Racism
KW  - Misogyny
KW  - Gang rape
KW  - Sexual abuse victims
KW  - Homophobia
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
N1  - "This book is about sexual violence and features frequent discussions of sexual violence, suicide, violence, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia"--Unnumbered page 5
N2  - It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines. Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying. Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure what to do. In the weeks after 'the incident' life seems to go on. But when whispers turn to confrontation, the institutions of wealth and privilege circle the wagons. Sprigs is the latest novel from Brannavan Gnanalingam. His previous novel Sodden Downstreamas short-listed for the Acorn Foundation prize for best fiction of the year
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