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In the late sixties during the summer between 8th and 9th grades, I was gleaning through the relatively few paperback novels in my parent's library for anything interesting to read. It was my good fortune to stumble upon a copy of James Michener's "Hawaii" on an upper shelf. It looked formidable at more than an inch thick, but I fearlessly plunged in with all the confidence I had assumed from earlier tackling J.R.R. Tolkein's "Hobbit" and Lord of the Ring series. To my delight, I was also taken for a life-changing ride into what was then a truly an entirely different universe.
Not only was " Hawaii" a vivid, flowing introduction to the history, the people and promise of Hawaii, to a third-generation offspring of Japanese-American grandparents such as myself, whose entire family was interned in US government relocation centers during World War II on the mainland, Michener's book was riveting and revolutionary! I must have read and re-read it six, maybe seven times in a row. To this very date of all books I've read since, this novel stands alone.
More significantly, in the heyday of the Dick & Jane readers, "Hawaii" was the first novel I read prior to age 21, which featured a cast of Asian-American characters as fully-fleshed out and on equal footing to those of the Caucasian-American characters, a precious and affirming detail for which I'll be eternally in this memorable and most-productive author's debt. |
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