Stories of people in Hawaii struggling with conflicts of race and alienation, and a powerful novella about a father's search for justice after his daughter's murder.
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A resident of Hawai'i for thirty-four years, Ian macmillan is the author of five novels. He has made abut ninety appearances in literary and commercial magazines including Yankee, Paris Review, Iowa Review, Hawai'i Reviet, etc. Winner of the 1992 Hawaii Award for Literature, he teaches fiction writing at the University of Hawaii, and is editor of Manoa:a Pacific Journal of International Writing.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant stories from a brilliant writer,
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This review is from: Exiles From Time - Stories of Hawaii (Paperback)
Ian MacMillan is a writer from Hawai'i, and while some of these short stories have that "local flavor", you don't have to be a kama'aina to enjoy his writing style. Each story is very unique, and MacMillan definitely knows how to use words to its fullest potential. Subtitled "Stories Of Hawai'i", the short stories all have to do with people in Hawai'i. Not only do you want to read them, but you want to get to know them too. It builds up to the last story, a novella about a man who still struggles with the death of his daughter. He eventually joins a support group and finds the others there are just as bad as he is. He finds someone, a woman, and they manage to get along. But along the way he comes across things that steer him towards another direction. I'll stop before I give away the whole story, but at one point, MacMillan writes the story so well you almost feel like you're moving in "slow motion" in the appropriate spots. An excellent book that will you not be able to put down.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Short Stories,
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This review is from: Exiles From Time - Stories of Hawaii (Paperback)
This book is six short stories. The first story describes how he was underneath his raised floor home (crawling in the sand) trying to poison termites. The description includes the smell of the termite juice mixed with termite droppings that will more than likely run down your arm. Having had this very experience myself it was nice to see it chronicled. He had to have lived in an older home in Coconut Grove of Kailua. The stories are of Hawaii but specifically Oahu, and many set on the Windward side. Living on the Windward side of Oahu, I almost feel as I know some of these characters. Great front Photo too.
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