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Mỹ Documents examines moral compromise, ambition, and loyalty as Vietnamese Americans are detained and...
“I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s.” This quote by John McCain is a provocative...
“Honolulu Noir” anthology poses existential questions
Honolulu Noir is an anthology of 13 authors, edited by Chris McKinney. I had to refresh my memory in that: “Noir is a genre...
‘The Expat’ is a novel of high tech espionage, duplicity, and the nature of...
The Expat by Hansen Shu is an engaging and provocative novel about Michael Wang, a recent graduate of Princeton working for General Motors in...
In Scott Kikkawa’s noir novel ‘Char Siu,’ the price of paradise is costly to...
Char Siu is the third detective novel by Scott Kikkawa, an Asian American author. His writing can be circumscribed like a stylized police report but...
‘Of White Ashes’ explores how to endure knowing nothing lasts forever
I was not eager to start reading Of White Ashes by Constance Hays Matsumoto and Kent Matsumoto. It is the story of two Japanese...
Picking up from Raymond Chandler, “The Goodbye Coast” asks: What stops us from living...
The Goodbye Coast by Joe Ide is a well written detective novel with lots of twists, turns and surprises. The characters are well developed...
Two children’s books focus on female surfers who change their lives by riding the...
Sarah and the Big Wave - A true story of the first woman to surf Mavericks is written by Bonnie Tsui. The illustrations by...
A detective novel set in 1950s Honolulu, Hawai’i, features a Japanese American WWII vet...
Red Dirt is the second in a series of detective novels by Scott Kikkawa. New to this genre of writing, I am struck by...
Graphic novel “No One Else” reminds us to take note of those heightened life...
R. Kikuo Johnson is the writer and illustrator of graphic short novel No One Else (published by Fantagraphics in November 2021). Having grown up...
Murder mystery Kona Winds takes the reader back to 1950s Honolulu and shows Hawai’i...
In the neighborhood where I live in Hawai`i, Sears & Roebuck is gone, replaced by a multiethnic Asian food court and beer garden, but...
