Chapter Twenty-Four | What These Ithakas Mean
<p><strong>PART SIX | MOTHER OF PEARL AND CORAL (Chapter 24)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ch. 24 |</strong> <em>“Iaorana,” </em>smiled the daughter of the family that would host me at their hostel on Tahiti, stepping forward as I exited the terminal to drape a <em>tiaré </em>(gardenia) lei around my shoulders.</p>
<p>This multigenerational family would be my introduction to the <em>fenua </em>(the land) as hallowed concept — and survival strategy — among the Maohis: they lived on shared real estate, but each of the adult generations kept their own household although, in this case, their compound was not rural or littoral but sub-urban.</p>
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