The Glass Rooster
Janis Freegard
Auckland University Press, $25.00,
ISBN 9781869408336

The Year of Falling
Janis Freegard
Ma¯karo Press, $35.00
ISBN 9780994106575

There is more than one way
to be human
more than one way
to be abominable

A friend observes that a key difference between those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or on the autism spectrum, and the rest of the world, is object-focused attention and people-focused attention. Another friend laments that the characters she writes are criticised for being cold, and that she herself is criticised because her writing does not warm readers up. Or, at least, it does not warm people-focused people up.