For fans of Schitts Creek and Sally Rooneys Normal People an irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they navigate queerness multiracial identity and the dramas big and small of their entangled unconventional family all while flailing their way to love. Its been a year since his ex-boyfriend dumped him and moved from Auckland to Buenos Aires and Valdin is doing fine. He has a good flat with his sister Greta a good career where his colleagues only occasionally remind him that he is the sole Maori person in the office and a good friend who he only sleeps with when hes sad. But when work sends him to Argentina and hes thrown back in his former lovers orbit Valdin is forced to confront the feelings hes been trying to ignore--and the future he wants. Greta is not letting her painfully unrequited crush (or her possibly pointless masters thesis or her pathetic academic salary...) get her down. She would love to focus on the charming fellow grad student she meets at a party and her friendships with a circle of similarly floundering twenty-somethings but her chaotic family life wont stop intruding: her mother is keeping secrets her nephew is having a gay crisis and her brother has suddenly flown to South America without a word. Sharp hilarious and with an undeniable emotional momentum that builds to an exuberant conclusion Greta & Valdin careens us through the siblings misadventures and the messy dramas of their sprawling eccentric Maori-Russian-Catalonian family. An acclaimed bestseller in New Zealand Greta & Valdin is fresh joyful and alive with the possibility of love in its many mystifying forms.
