S01E07: Laura Williamson - Writer. Dean’s Bank, Albert Town
Laura Williamson arrived in Wānaka the week of the big flood of 1999. The water had just receded, the high water mark was still visible on the supermarket walls, and her partner immediately found a job taking apart, cleaning, re-lubing, and reassembling flood-damaged bikes. She’d initially come to Aotearoa from Toronto, where she’d been dying on the inside at an overwhelmed EFTPOS machine call-centre, asking herself where the furthest place from her cubefarm hellscape might be. New Zealand had been on her personal hard drive since she was nine years old, when she’d had her young mind blown by…
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