5/10/2023 0 Comments Black Ice Matter by Gina Cole![]() ![]() ![]() Cole’s first book, the critically acclaimed collection of short stories Black Ice Matter, was violent, immersive and smart. These are some of the unpredictable stories in this collection that follow themes of ice and glaciers in the heat of the South Pacific and take us into unusual lives and explorations. And Cole brings something of Atwood’s world-building to mind her new science-fiction novel is a meditation on place and traverses deep space. Ginas collection Black Ice Matter won Best First Book Fiction at the 2017 Ockham. an is caught between traditional Fijian ways and the brutality of the military dictatorship a glaciology researcher falls into a crevasse and confronts the unexpected two women lose children in freak shooting accidents a young child in a Barbie Doll sweatshop dreams of a different life secondary school girls struggle with secrets about an addicted janitor and two women take a deathly trip through a glacier melt stream. Gina Cole (Fijian, Pkeha) has a PhD in creative writing from Massey. Sometimes it involves juxtapositions of time sometimes heat appears where only ice is expected. Extremes of heat and cold - across countries, through time and in feelings - thread through these stories: a researcher plummets into a crevasse and finds. Sometimes this is spatial or geographical sometimes it is metaphorical. This collection of short stories explores connections between extremes of heat and cold. ![]()
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