Memoir

Mele Fonoti

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Mele Fonoti

Mele Fonoti is a Samoan-New Zealand memoirist whose writing excavates the tender, complicated terrain of growing up between cultures. Her memoir, The Breadfruit Tree, is a love letter to her family and a reckoning with belonging.

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The Breadfruit Tree
Memoir

The Breadfruit Tree

Mele Fonoti

A love letter to family and a reckoning with belonging across Samoa and Aotearoa.

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