Freelove : A Novel

by Sia Figiel

Rating: 5 (1 vote)

Tags: Female author

Freelove

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It is 1985 in Nu'uolemanusa/Village of the Sacred Owl, Western Samoa. Madonna's Like a Virgin rules the airwaves. Brilliant and inquisitive high school student and Star Trek fanatic, 17 1/2 year old Inosia Alofafua Afatasi, is sent by her mother to the capital, Apia, to buy three giant white threads. While she waits at the bus-stop, Mr. Ioane Viliamu, her teacher of Science and Mathematics and recent graduate of the University of Papua New Guinea and the pastor's eldest son, in turn, her spiritual brother, stops to offer her a ride in his red pick-up truck. Should she wait for the bus? Or should she accept the ride?

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Read Around The World Challenge user profile avatar for Rachel
(1 month ago)
25 Oct, 2024
Très belle découverte! On a droit ici à une histoire d'amour qui défie les conventions sociales, à une sexualité libre et sacrée, à une initiation qui comprend une découverte de l'identité individuelle et collective tout en se questionnant sur l'héritage du colonialisme et de la globalisation, le tout dans un langage sensuel et poétique qui nous plonge au coeur des îles du Pacifique.

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