The Songmaker's Chair — Albert Wendt

Auckland, one summer weekend. A family fused together by the energies of multicultural Aotearoa New Zealand faces meltdown as tensions build between migrant and New Zealand-born generations, and between Samoan, Mâori, and Pâlagi family members. Why is it we've strayed this far?
We think we've found a firm fit to this land.
To our children and mokopuna it's home.
That's good enough pe ‘a o‘o mai le Amen
and Papatûânuku embraces us ...