Winner of the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel, Ruby Porter is a leading voice in young New Zealand Literature.
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.
‘Attraction peels back the landscape to reveal deeper truths. The
writer is right inside her material – a road trip that delivers a
political and sexual coming-of-age narrative. The book is a
slow-burning fuse that brims with intensely felt experience. Porter
is an exciting new talent.’
*Lloyd Jones*
‘Attraction abounds with sharp imagery, intergenerational
relationships and the natural, historic and domestic environments
of modern New Zealand. Ruby Porter is a gifted new writer.’
*Patricia Grace*
‘Attraction is an exquisite story...The prose is emotive and
artistic…Attraction is impossible to put down…It is a brilliant,
beautiful novel.’
*Booksellers NZ*
’The road trip proves the perfect medium here for the writer’s
coming-of-age quiet exploration of the transitory and the fickle;
of what matters beneath the turmoil of an ever-changing personal
history and the relationship of individuals to their scarred and
damaged homeland.’
*Otago Daily Times*
‘A coming-of-age story that is full of evocative sketches of the
North Island’s landscapes.’
*Traveller magazine*
‘Skill and talent combined’
*NZ Metro*
‘The story is told in fragments and time slips; sometimes it’s
straight reportage, sometimes it’s more like a diary, relating what
the narrator is remembering, reading and feeling. She is not always
reliable. Her ever-changing consciousness, by turns particular and
dreamlike, rolls out like the waves at Whāngārā. It makes for a
wonderful novel.’
*NZ Listener*
‘Not a word is wasted. Imagery is of the sharpest level. The
settings almost take on lives of their own...There is so much to
love about this angry, meditative novel that reading it is almost
an act of catharsis.'
*AU Review*
'Very few contemporary New Zealand novels examine our national
political blind spots with such a clear eye...If Porter shows us
that the past is complicated, messy and often unpleasant, and the
legacy difficult to live with, she shows us these things with an
artist’s eye for beauty.’
*Landfall Review*
‘The prose is subtle and flavourful…One to savour slowly.’
*ArtsHub*
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