Both Sides of the Moon by Alan Duff

A fractured family confronts the weight of ancestry

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Jimmy grows up feeling that he belongs to two worlds without being secure in either. With Māori and Pākehā heritage, he experiences the tensions of a divided family and tries to understand what his identity means. Stories of an ancestor, a warrior who became an outcast from his tribe, open a troubling connection between the past and Jimmy's own life. Alan Duff moves between generations to explore violence, shame, belonging and the expectations carried through a family. The novel examines the darker implications of inheritance alongside the desire to make sense of it, following a young person whose search for himself cannot be separated from the histories surrounding him.