Earthquakes & butterflies
Subtitle: Otautahi Christchurch
By: by Kathleen Gallagher ; photographs Michael Coughlan ; design Katy Yiakmis
Publisher: Wickcandle
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Christchurch, New Zealand
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780473332327
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Canterbury Earthquake, N.Z., 2010; Fiction; Christchurch Earthquake, N.Z., 2011; Earthquakes; Psychological aspects
Other titles: Earthquakes and butterflies
Description: A lyrical, impressionistic novel set amid the series of devastating Christchurch earthquakes beginning on 4th September 2010, through to late 2012. As buildings crumble, the ground opens, and liquefaction and water spring up out of nowhere, seven folk, their lives in pieces, go on. Lets you walk alongside the people in and around the broken and recovering city. The narrative allows you inside the experience of the earthquakes and their ongoing repercussions with a delightful intimacy. The photographic journal, the personal journal and the narrative, work powerfully together creating a journey through time, and in and out of the realm of spirit, to a place of insight and healing.
Notes: "4 September 2010 magnitude 7.1, 13611 aftershocks ; 22 February 2011, magnitude 6.4, 9183 aftershocks ; 13 June 2011, magnitude 6.3, 5241 aftershocks ; 23 December 2011, magnitude 6.2, 3317 aftershocks."

Includes bibliographical references.