Dan Williams

Aroha Dan Williams

Joanna's fine with her random urges. She's confident in her ability to paint masterpieces that fetch millions in a world of shrinking coasts, violent storms and all but outlawed paper. She's clueless about everything else and the discovery that although dead, her mother Aroha is far from gone and is largely disapproving of her choices is just another thing to worry about. Aroha is an anomaly with shaky mental health, a soul without a body who can still touch the world but probably shouldn't. She has awaited her daughter's return home for 24 years and is none too happy with the lazy, messy, pot-smoking result. As if things weren't hard enough, without a mortal body to help manage her phantom physical urges, Joanna's new boyfriend Tristian, with his loose wandering soul and tight morals, presents an awkwardly arousing distraction. A distraction from the secret Aroha desperately wants hide from Joanna...