Cuz is a story about family and culture, survival and love. River and Huia are cousins who don't get on terribly well. Huia is all about Māoritanga, while River is seperated from it. They go out on a trawler with Huia's dad, and there is an accident, and the two are left to find their way across the mountains, through the bush, with nothing but Huia's knowledge of native flora and fauna, their wits and determination, and each other, to keep them alive. On one level this book is a pretty basic story of survival in the wilderness. Two teenagers doing what they can to stay alive long enough to get home. But on another it is a loveletter to Māoritanga. To ancestral knowledge. To listening to those who come before us, even when you don't think w...