From the hauntingly beautiful "The Queen's Prayer," written by Hawai'i's last reigning monarch, to Ryan Monico's "The Million-Dollar Mango Tree," a tribute to his grandfather's pickled mango, the editors present finely textured narratives of life in Hawai'i by some of the state's most respected writers and observers.
"The islands are here, both in body and in spirit, with their many layers of settlement and terrain, the cities, the plantation towns, the rain forests, and rural valleys, the waterways, the caves and craters of volcano country. Hawai'i has always been a place where nature and culture continually intertwine. This book contains a world where an island itself can have a voice and sing, where a sacred rock has the power to draw fish toward shore, where sharks are ancestors, and the dead often speak to the living." --- from the Foreword by James Houston
