Ruby will be in conversation with Cait Kneller, talking about her debut novel.

Attraction (the first recipient of the Michael Gifkins prize), follows three young women on a road trip through Auckland, Levin and Whāngārā.

An examination of the female experience, friendship, male jealousy and the legacy of family and colonialism, Attraction reckons with New Zealand's colonialist history and the abusive ghosts of love and familial past.

This is our August Lit Reads title. See more here.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ruby Porter is a tutor of creative writing at the University of Auckland. She has been published in Geometry Journal, Aotearotica, Spinoff and Wireless, and a selection of her poetry is available on NZEPC. In 2018, she also won the Wallace Foundation Short Fiction Contest.

Author photo by Claire Foley