Reeling: A Novel

RayAnne is traveling to New Zealand to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show, Fishing! Despite her grandmother's ghost haunting her electronic devices, she is determined to take public television's first all-women fishing talk show on the road. With camera-wielding twins Rongo and Rangi as crew and tour guides, RayAnne and her producer Cassi set out across New Zealand in search of noteworthy women who fish. Their stories, and a good dose of the country's history, are almost enough to take the edge off RayAnne's homesickness and grief.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

RayAnne's next adventure takes her to New Zealand, haunted by her grandmother's death, to film a new season of her all-women fishing talk show. Denial seems to be the stage for launching the second season of Fishing! — in New Zealand. With camera-wielding twins Rongo and Rangi as crew and tour guides, RayAnne and her indefatigable producer Cassi set out across New Zealand in search of noteworthy women who fish. Their stories, and a good dose of the country's history, are almost enough to take the edge off RayAnne's homesickness and grief, to say nothing of jetlag. It doesn't hurt to discover a bird dog who fishes, an anti-fashionista, a pair of sisters fishing their way through recovery, and a Hobbit. Meanwhile, the romantic and family entanglements she left behind at home haven't exactly come untangled in her absence.

Those who met RayAnne in Fishing! will encounter familiar and unexpected pleasures in her latest antics—and a story whose lighthearted surface and surprising depths will charm readers who now find her for the first time.

Dimension: 210 x 140 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781517908997