Dink: Diary of a Wairoa Boy (The Dink Diaries Book 1)

Description

Dink Rosser is leaving Wairoa for Auckland with a student loan, a diary he did not ask for, and one very inconvenient problem: his twin brother Braden is coming too.

University is supposed to be Dink’s fresh start. New city. New hall. New people. A chance to become himself without everyone back home knowing his business, mixing him up with Braden, or calling him David when they want to annoy him.

But Auckland is not the clean reset he hoped for. His childhood best mate Rawiri is already there, already changed, and already caught up in something Dink does not understand. Braden is trying to build a life separate from him. New friendships arrive sideways. Old insecurities follow him into every room. And the more Dink tries to laugh everything off, the more his first year starts to tilt into something darker.

Told through Dink’s sharp, chaotic diary voice, Dink: Diary of a Wairoa Boy is a darkly funny New Zealand coming-of-age novel about brotherhood, belonging, identity, friendship, memory, and the trouble that finds you when you are still trying to work out who you are.