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Jessie Bray Sharpin

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Jessie Bray Sharpin is a writer and historian. She has lived lives as a social history curator, gallery assistant and bookseller. She is a book reviewer for RNZ Nine to Noon, runs Sass History walking tours, and is undertaking a Masters in Museum Studies, focussing on the marginalisation of textiles in museum collections due to their association with women and the domestic.

Everything By: Jessie Bray Sharpin

Literature09.12.19

Uneasy Seas: Attraction and Auē

Jessie Bray Sharpin on two debut novels that reckon with painful memories and fractured families: Attraction by Ruby Porter and Auē by Becky Manawatu.

By Jessie Bray Sharpin
Read Time: 17 mins

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