In the Time of the Manaroans Kuang R.F. Zuva must reconcile with her

Zuva must reconcile with her duty and heal the broken community she left behind

and falls asleep for ever

2021–March 18

Half a century later

In the Time of the Manaroans Kuang R.F. Zuva must reconcile with herAt fourteen Miro Bilbrough falls out with the communist grandmother who has raised her since she was seven, and is sent to live with her father and his rural hippy friends. It is 1978, Canvastown, New Zealand, and the Floodhouse is a dwelling of pre industrial gifts and deficiencies set on the banks of the Wakamarina River, which routinely invades its rooms. Isolated in rural poverty, the lives of Miro and her father and sister are radically enhanced