Vast and sweeping in scope, this brilliant debut novel is braided with stories of love and war, loss, relationships, island lore, and the joys of running. A Runner’s Guide to Rakiura is also playful, funny, and romantic, and like any good treasure hunt, there will be reckonings, redemptions, and yes… there will be treasure.
Vast and sweeping in scope, this brilliant debut novel is braided with stories of love and war, loss, relationships, island lore, and the joys of running. A Runner’s Guide to Rakiura is also playful, funny, and romantic, and like any good treasure hunt, there will be reckonings, redemptions, and yes… there will be treasure.
Map of Rakiura Stewart Island 6 Prologue 9 Part I 13 Part II 138 Part III 249 Part IV 319 Part V 350 Part VI 380 Epilogue 405 Acknowledgements 410
Radio NZ, Nine to Noon, interview with Kathryn Ryan, Wed 19 10am Plains FM, interview with Ruth Todd and Morrin Rout Otago Daily Times, review Southland Times, interview Your Weekend/Stuff, zoom interview 1pm Friday 23 September, to run 15 October NZME regional papers (Hawkes Bay Today, Northern Advocate, Bay of Plenty Times, Wanganui Chronicle, Wairarapa Times-Age and Rotorua Daily Mail), review
JESSICA HOWLAND KANY was born on Manhattan Island (NYC) and now resides on another extraordinary island: Rakiura Stewart Island, New Zealand. She has lived there since 2002, editing the Stewart Island News (SIN) since 2005. Between island lives, she graduated from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri; lived in San Francisco; wrote for the Jackson Hole News in Jackson, Wyoming; and worked at the Lahaina Library in Maui, Hawaii. On Rakiura she has worked at the pub, the post office/flight centre and is "desk crew" for her fisherman husband. Other hats include librarian, rat trapper, trail runner, "Foveaux foodie", artichoke enthusiast, and running a myths & legends club for kids. Her writing has appeared in Running Times, North & South, New Zealand Geographic, New Zealand Gardener, Sky & Telescope, Wilderness Magazine, and The Island Review. Besides boogie-boarding with her boys, her favourite pastime is splitting wood.
"A remarkable novel... to be delighted in for the puzzles, the mysteries, the humour, the sadness, the evocative and vibrant language. The language sings and whispers, digging you in the ribs so that you burst out laughing, clogging your throat with tears... A novel which has touched my heart and which I know will stay with me for a very long time." Paddy Richardson "The work of a born writer... A worthy successor to Maurice Shadbolt. A festival of plot, story and wonderful writing." Professor Patrick Evans, author of THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND LITERATURE.
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