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Mililani Mauka [Kindle Edition]

Chris McKinney
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Secretly, a man welds steel to a bulldozer. Later, another watches a ghost walk along his dry-walled hallways. A woman raises her teenage son in a homeless encampment where the boy has to fight to survive with the help of a strange, lonely cop.

In Mililani Mauka, the lives of two families, the Motts and the Krills, come together as they try to keep afloat in a changing Honolulu, a city with growing suburbs and homeless camps. The Motts, new home owners in one of suburban Mililani’s fastest growing enclaves, crave the American Dream while the Krills, now homeless in Wai‘anae, are nearly destroyed by it.

The fate of both families collide as Banyan Mott searches for answers after his new house becomes haunted by its previous owner, and Kai Krill fights to get out from under the tent and off the beach. As their story unfolds, Kai’s son, Josh, has to deal with why his father snapped, which in the end enables him to discover what it is to be a real man.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 350 KB
  • Publisher: Mutual Publishing, LLC (May 1, 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0028Y659G
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,645 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing as a regional read, but does it make sense in, say, New Jersey?, August 7, 2010
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This review is from: Mililani Mauka (Paperback)
I've read author Chris McKinney's book The Tattoo, and was impressed by the grittiness and rawness of the story and the characters. But I remember wondering whether readers outside of Hawaii would understand the nuances of the place and the actions. I don't remember having this same thought when, for example, I'm reading about the recent immigrant in SoHo, or even a lobsterman in Maine.

Mililani Mauka is similar to The Tattoo in regional detail. If you've driven around the town, or gone out to the west side, you'll recognize the places and the details. McKinney writes with such detail that you will pick up on sights and smells!

In Mililani Mauka, the life of a middle class community college instructor slowly becomes intertwined with a homeless woman and her son. The instructor finds he is living in the homeless woman's old house, sold after her husband had gone on a rampage in an armored bulldozer, attacking the downtown and WalMart until he was shot and killed by police. Needless to say, the residual trauma of the event has not dissipated.

McKinney writes well. Mililani Mauka is a good addition to the modern Hawaiiana literature.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Hawai'ian book, July 13, 2010
This review is from: Mililani Mauka (Paperback)
This book is written well, but not fantastically. The story is a good one, though a tad ironic and unrealistic at times. The ending comes abruptly and seems to be tied into too-pretty of a bow.
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