This Is Paradise: Stories

“Partial blurb from the Native Books website: "Intimately tied to the Hawaiian Islands, This Is Paradise explores the relationships among native Hawaiians, local citizens, and emigrants from (and to) the contiguous forty-eight states. There is tension between locals and tourists, between locals and the military men that populate their communities, between local Hawaiian girls who never leave and those who do for higher education and then return." A lucid and visceral collection of short stories by Hawaiian author, Kristiana Kahakauwila.”