The Bone People: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)
Keri Hulme, a Maori, grew up in Christchurch and Moeraki, New Zealand.  She writes, paints, and whitebaits in Okarito, Westland.  Hulme has written poems and short stories;The Bone People, originally published by Spiral, a New Zealand feminist collective, is her first novel.  She has also writtenTe Zaihau: The Windeater.