TY - BOOK AU - Jones, Alison, TI - This Pākehā life: an unsettled memoir SN - 9781988587288 AV - LA2394 U1 - 378.12 23 PY - 2020///. CY - Wellington, New Zealand : PB - Bridget Williams Books, KW - Jones, Alison, KW - College teachers KW - New Zealand KW - Biography KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Fiction KW - Pākehā KW - reo KW - Tuakiri KW - Noho-a-iwi KW - Kōrero taumata KW - Biographies N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Being here -- Ghosts and arrivals -- Learning to stand upright -- Finding boundaries -- Tricky memories -- Māori on the front lawn -- Two friends -- Area returned to the natives -- Impossible love -- Middle-class olives, and revolution -- Light on the kūmara garden -- Wānanga -- A surprising whakapapa -- Risky territory -- A broken hill -- The pīwakawaka and and the kaumātua N2 - "A timely and perceptive memoir from award-winning author and academic Alison Jones. As questions of identity come to the fore once more in New Zealand, this frank and humane account of a life spent traversing Pākehā and Māori worlds offers important insights into our shared life on these islands"--Publisher information ER -