Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit politics in the canoe

in the canoe

This pointed to our need to learn and understand the authentic Hawaiian culture in order to increase our effectiveness in helping those we serve

While teaching on Saipan and serving on the CNMI Council for the Humanities

hardcover   |   40 pages   |   12

Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit politics in the canoeIn this beautiful and moving collection, Gail Harada deftly traverses the boundaries between poetry, memoir, and fiction, demonstrating a rare versatility of craft. The prose has the lyric sensibility of the born poet and the poems are infused with the storyteller's magic. While many of the selections are grounded in a sense of placethe well loved geography of Hawaiiit is a dynamic sense of place, shot through with a humor and irony that never gives