Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Mixed Race Memoir about the Hawai'i I Never Knew

by Sharon H. Chang

In her first work of literary nonfiction, Sharon H. Chang reflects critically on her Asian American, Mixed Race, and activist identity through the prism of returning to Hawai'i as a tourist. While visiting O'ahu and Kaua'i she considers childhood trips to Maua'i and the Big Island, pop culture and Hollywood movies of her youth that perpetuated Hawaiian stereotypes, and what it means that she has been stereotyped as a "Hawai'i Girl" her whole life...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1732484708
• ISBN13: 9781732484702
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Rising Song Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"