num_pages: 334
description: Love, life, families...Tahitian style!Materena Mahi, champion professional cleaner and best listener in all of Tahiti, is usually the one solving the problems. But right now she's that close to throwing her daughter Leilani into the street. 'It doesn't matter what I do,' she confides to Mama Teta, to Cousin Rita, to Mama Loana and to the Virgin Mary Understanding Woman, 'it's always the wrong thing. I'm going taravana !' And if that wasn't enough there's a boy on the horizon. Or so the relatives are saying.When everything around her is changing, and the traditional Tahitian rules no longer seem to be enough, Materena realises it's going to take more than the Welcome into Womanhood talk to deal with the next generation of Mahi women...
language: English
title: Frangipani
titlecomplete: Frangipani
genres: Family, Fiction, Contemporary, The World, Chick Lit, Asia, Literary Fiction, Romance, Adult Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 1430
places: Tahiti
series: Materena Mahi
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix des étudiants de L’université de la Polynésie française
publisher: Arrow