The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau

The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances by Terri Te Tau

The Valley of Unlikely Acquaintances is an inventive and deeply grounded debut novel from Terri Te Tau that brings speculative fiction into conversation with whakapapa, ecological restoration and the long memory of land. Set in a future Wairarapa, the novel follows Tīria, a scientist at the whānau-led Kōpuaranga Research Centre, whose controversial work has transformed the valley’s reforestation efforts. Genetically edited cats in the ngahere ar…