Where We Once Belonged
Edition: Kaya Press edition
Publisher: Kaya/Muae
Published: November 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781885030276
Subjects: Modern fiction; Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Description: "Figiel uses the traditional Samoan storytelling form of su'ifefiloi to talk back to Western anthropological studies on Samoan women and culture. In doing so, she weaves an honest - and sometimes brutal - coming-of-age story that combines poetry with an unflinching humor to describe the abiguities of adolescent desire. Told in a series of linked episodes that recall the work of V.S.

Naipaul and Sandra Cisneros, this powerful and highly original narrative follows thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga as she navigates the mores and restrictions of her village, Malaefou, and comes to terms with her own womanhood and search for identity."--BOOK JACKET.