Simone Kaho navigates, reveals and transcends the paths of human trauma. Her writing is urgent, visceral, and deeply thoughtful all at once. In this confronting tale of sexual violence and survival, there is ferocity and tenderness, rage and hope, howling and singing. In the end, HEAL! teaches us to go forward in our flawed, beautiful world.” —Anne Kennedy

"I feel this work start to charge like it could collapse whole systems." —essa may ranapiri

"I read this book in one sitting. Paralysed by the beauty, purpose and pungency of the writing. If the ancestral goddess speaks, it speaks in Simone’s lyrical ahioahio. We enter a whirlpool of words. They pull us in, hold us close enough to hear the text breathing. Momentum builds, in spiralling, cycling motion until—for a moment—it is as if we see through the cool eye of the hurricane. This is a powerful witnessing. As Audre Lorde says, our silences have never saved us. Simone Kaho will save more than one life by writing her own trail into the hurricane and out." —Karlo Mila