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A Girlhood in Hawai'i
Grove Press
February 2008
On Sale: February 18, 2008
208 pages
ISBN: 0802118623
EAN: 9780802118622
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
New from the author of In the Cut, the luminous self-
portrait of a childhood and adolescence in Hawai’i. Susanna
Moore can’t remember the first time she saw the ocean—it
has been there for as long as she can remember. Moore was
born in Hawai’i and raised in a paradise of light and
color, five days’ ship travel from the U.S. mainland. As a
child she spent endless sun-speckled days in the shade of
the palm trees with a bundle of books, the sound of the
ocean and the calls of her brothers and sister drifting
through the grove. In Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai’i,
she weaves reminiscences of her childhood with some of her
favorite pieces of literature—excerpts from Robinson
Crusoe, Moby Dick, Treasure Island, Kon-Tiki, To the
Lighthouse, and many others. Although Moore now lives in
New York, the sea remains her constant companion. Light
Years marks her return to the island world where she walked
to school barefoot and explored love as a young girl.
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