<P> Grace is raped in her bed one night, and she subsequently hangs herself . In her diary, later found by her family, Grace says she thinks it was her uncle Bully who raped her; Jake, who had been too drunk to remember what happened that night, has no answer . He leaves his family and starts living in a park, where he reflects on his life and befriends a homeless young man . Meanwhile, Beth starts a Māori culture group and generally attempts to revive the community . </P> <P> A sequel to the book was published in 1996, What Becomes of The Broken Hearted?, which was made into a film in 1999 . Both the book and film sequel were well received, though not as celebrated as the original . The third book in the trilogy, Jake's Long Shadow, was published in 2002, but has not been made into a movie . </P> <P> Once Were Warriors, and Duff's fiction in general, is strongly influenced by his childhood experiences . In his 1999 autobiography, Out of the Mist and Steam, he describes his Māori mother (and most of her relatives) as alcoholic, irresponsible and physically and emotionally abusive . His Pākehā father and his relatives, by contrast, were highly educated and sophisticated--one uncle, Roger Duff, was a well - known anthropologist; his paternal grandfather was liberal magazine editor and literary patron Oliver Duff . </P> <P> As a teenager, Duff himself spent some time in borstal, and he drew on this when writing about Boogie . The book's setting of Two Lakes is based on his hometown of Rotorua (which means' two lakes' in the Māori language; roto lake, rua two), and on the Ford Block of state housing in the town . </P>

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