Greta & Valdin

It’s been a year since Valdin’s ex-boyfriend left Auckland for Buenos Aires, and Valdin is doing just fine. He has a good flat with his sister Greta, a decent career where he’s only occasionally reminded that he’s the office’s sole Māori employee, and a close friend he only sleeps with when he’s sad. But when work sends him to Argentina and back into his ex’s orbit, Valdin is forced to reckon with the feelings he’s been avoiding—and what he really wants from his future.

Meanwhile, Greta is determined not to let her unrequited crush, questionable master’s thesis, or terrible academic salary get her down. She’d rather focus on a charming fellow graduate student and her equally adrift twenty-something friends, but her chaotic family keeps getting in the way. Her mother is hiding secrets, her nephew is navigating a gay crisis, and her brother has mysteriously disappeared to South America.

Moving between the siblings’ misadventures and the messy dramas of their sprawling Māori-Russian-Catalonian family, Greta & Valdin is funny, tender, and full of life. An acclaimed New Zealand bestseller, it’s a joyful story about family, growing up, and the many strange and unexpected forms love can take.