Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit politics Ko‘olaupoko

Ko‘olaupoko

A humorous

in the canoe

spiral binding   |   8 pages   |   9

writer of da award-winning Pidgin short story collection Da Word

Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit politics Ko‘olaupokoIn 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