The Dark Dad writers and fa‘afafine

writers and fa‘afafine

either historically or today

finalists and organisers as they share the history of rural New Zealand’s most prestigious competition

as a photographer

The Dark Dad writers and fa‘afafineThe damage done to a family by war Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhood and the brutal experience of being a prisoner of war in Italy and then Germany from late 1941 to 1945. In this affecting memoir, she traces back through her fathers