Shark Dialogues
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781439192436 (143919243X)
Publish date: March 23rd 2010
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Contemporary,
Roman,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Female Authors,
Magical Realism,
United States
I liked the first 70ish pages about the matriarch Kelonikoa, the daughter of a Tahitian chief. The writing was colorful and vibrant. Hawaiian history and geogarphy were wonderfully described. But now, Pono, Kelonikoa's great granddaughter, has come on stage. The writing is just too dramatic, too gra...
This book utterly defies categorization. It begins with a brief introduction of four girl cousins winging their way back to Pono's coffee farm in the 1990s. Then it jumps back in time and becomes historical fiction with a smattering of magical realism. Hawaii's sad and painful past is covered, wit...
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