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Hula, May 2023
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A Novel
HarperVia
May 2023
On Sale: May 2, 2023
400 pages
ISBN: 0063276984
EAN: 9780063276987
Kindle: B0B8DC55BP
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“A full-throated chant for Hawai'i. Part coming-of-
age story, part historical family epic, all love. . . .
It’s impossible to come away unchanged.”
—KAWAI STRONG WASHBURN, author of the PEN/Hemingway
award-winning Sharks in the Times of Saviors
Set in Hilo, Hawai’i, a sweeping saga of tradition,
culture, family, history, and connection that unfolds
through the lives of three generations of women—a tale
of mothers and daughters, dance and destiny.
“There’s no running away on an island. Soon
enough, you end up where you started.”
Hi'i is proud to be a Naupaka, a family renowned for its
contributions to hula and her hometown of Hilo, Hawaii, but
there’s a lot she doesn’t understand.
She’s never met her legendary grandmother and her
mother has never revealed the identity of her father. Worse,
unspoken divides within her tight-knit community have
started to grow, creating fractures whose origins are
somehow entangled with her own family history.
In hula, Hi'i sees a chance to live up to her name and
solidify her place within her family legacy. But in order to
win the next Miss Aloha Hula competition, she will have to
turn her back on everything she had ever been taught, and
maybe even lose the very thing she was fighting for.
Told in part in the collective voice of a community
fighting for its survival Hula is a spellbinding
debut that offers a rare glimpse into a forgotten kingdom
that still exists in the heart of its people.
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