Islands rise and disappear again. Keri Hulme's "The Bone People" is, in the language of the Maori, a fish made of jade that once swam the sea off the west coast of New Zealand. As idiosyncratic and powerful as the fantasy world of the Maori, the stories of New Zealand's master storyteller Keri Hulme unfold. In a world where nothing seems reliable and secure, the characters brush against what is barely possible or hardly imaginable: apocalyptic visions, grotesque transformations, and cruel incidents. It is the intuition of the creaturely that gives Keri Hulme's narratives their unique magic.