'A stand-out essay collection from one of the finest nonfiction writers in the country. Hura’s inquiries draw science, grief, pūrākau, poetry and bone-deep intelligence to pull climate change close. The work Hura does in this book helps us see the climate crisis as inextricable from daily life: a story we are living and can take ownership of.' – Claire Mabey, The Spinoff
'It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the climate crisis and disengage from it. But Hura reminds readers that “anything you do to benefit the land benefits you, often immediately. The environment is the healer, not the other way around”. I have never read a book like this before —deeply personal, yet relevant to everyone. Even the most seasoned climate scientist will learn a lot.' – Tara McAllister, Nature
'Wildly informative and generous, Slowing the Sun begins as an inquiry into the world of climate change activism and swiftly unfolds into an interrogation of the racist hierarchy of knowledge. These essays welcome us into conversations being had in the margins, about our relationship with the natural world and the abundance of mahi that is dedicated to protecting that relationship.' – Māia Te Whētu, takahē magazine
'Nadine Hura’s book Slowing the Sun: Essays is both lyrical and insightful. At a journalistic and research level this collection of essays offers focused, intelligent and thorough investigations into the causes, effects and science of climate change. It explores the ways in which colonisation and extractive capitalist practices have in both the past and the present adversely impacted on tangata whenua and fed into the climate crisis we now face.' – Gina Cole, Landfall
'Slowing the Sun is a book I didn’t want to or couldn’t rush. It is so beautifully, delicately, radically perfect, a book that needs to be savoured, underlined, highlighted, with a lot of notes and Post-it tags. Nadine captures it beautifully when she writes how, “Māori communities aren’t captured by the deficit language of climate change….People on the ground talk about Indigenous reclamation, constitutional transformation, anti-colonialism, radical dreaming, joy, creativity, pride, and a future seven generations bright.”' – Shilo Kino, Newsroom
'I loved this book. I loved it so much. Slowing the Sun is a collection of essays that attempt to interpret or reckon with climate change as a story that the reader can actually enter.' – Elizabeth Heritage, RNZ Nine to Noon
'Wellington essayist Nadine Hura's new collection Slowing the Sun is a karanga to those who have left us and those still with us, with a message to hold fast to ancestral knowledge for future generations... Through science, pūrākau and poetry, Nadine attempts to understand climate change in relation to whenua and people.' – Radio New Zealand
'My book deals with grief and loss, because wherever there is colonialism, there is grief and loss. But there is also strength, endurance, intelligence, wit, and just really hardworking, hard-case people doing their best in terrible and unjust circumstances. As a writer, that’s your privilege. You get to choose what to give light to: the systems or the people. I chose the people.' – Nadine Hura, interview with Dale Husband, E-Tangata
'One element that makes Slowing the Sun so striking is [its] ability to weave in the personal, whānau-grounded kōrero with unwavering activism and politics.' – The Māori Literature Trust | Te Waka Taki Kōrero
