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Paperback Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i Book

ISBN: 0679767487

ISBN13: 9780679767480

Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i

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Garrett Hongo grew up with a profound sense of estrangement from his past: "Family secrets, evasions, and my own ignorance fed an anger and a desire to know that would not abate." Born in Hawai'i,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Mislabled as a memoir of Hawaii, it's a spiritual odyssey

This enormously moving book is presented more as a natural history of a land, Hawaii, when it really is a history of one man's soul. Touchingly self revealing, it shares the torment and the ecstasy of one person's search for meaning. I felt the natural history information, the eternal tree and the omnipresent volcano, were metaphors, not the meat of the book. I encourage readers on a personal path of understanding to take on VOLCANO as a guidebook of a singular journey - one that may resonate with many of us. It is wonderful
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