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$19.95
$17.95 From Hawaii author Kirby Wright comes Moloka'i Nui Ahina.
Julia Daniels, a hapa haole Moloka'i pioneer woman, invites her grandsons Jeff and Ben to spend summers with her at her ranch on the rough and tumble east end of Moloka'i. She shares the land with ex-husband Chipper, an alcoholic war hero with a life estate bordering the swamp. The boys roam a paradise of fishponds, waterfalls, and mountains with herds of deer. Jeff meets the kahuna woman who freezes pictures of her enemies, the transsexual who seduces the Chief of Police, the man who referees cock fights in Kaunakakai, the foxy divorcee who lives in the saddle room, and the prodigal grandfather who returns to woo Julia. These characters shape Jeff's sensibilities as he learns the secrets of his grandmother's wild past in Honolulu and the intensity of her struggles on the Lonely Isle. |
