Notes

'New Zealand Listener' top 100 books 2010.
'The Press' Books of the year 2010.
Christchurch City Libraries top 10 titles 2010.
Box Saxton just wants to bury his teenage stepson in the churchyard near the farm where Box grew up, but the boy's biological father, a Maori leader, turns up and forcibly takes the body. According to custom the boy must be buried in the ancestral cemetery and legally there is little Box can do. With no plan and little hope, Box gets in his old truck and drives north, desperate and heartbroken.