Title: Where we once belonged
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Women--fiction, Women--samoan islands--fiction, Fiction, Pr9639.3.f48 w48 1996, 823, Social life and customs, Pacific studies, Women's studies
LC classification: PR9639.3.F48 W48 1996