With the formerly entrenched system of good-ol-boy power up in the air, and Hawai‘i becoming a place where our best and brightest are forced to leave in order to thrive, a collection of local characters on convergent paths aim to improve their lot and their vision of Hawai‘i’s future. Hawai ‘ i takes place in the power vacuum of a recently deceased, nine-term United States Senator. This book is Mark Panek’s sweeping, epic tale about the modern Hawai‘i we live in, the one we call our home, the one that is getting harder to live in every day, one that many of us scrape by just to survive.

Before you even set your eyes on the first page, this book asserts itself as if to say, “This IS Hawai‘i.” And it is. So, for Lō‘ihi Press and Mark Panek to call their new novel Hawai‘i-ho, must get some major alas! Isle author Chris McKinney states this book is “a much-needed contemporary answer to James Michener’s Hawaii, takes Michener’s ‘golden men’ vision of racial harmony out back and beats it.” But it’s more than just Michener.

Hearing the title of this book most people will automatically recall the epic James Michener novel-the one spawning multiple films, the one always recommended by tourists to people on Internet travel forums who ask “What Hawaii books should I read before/during my trip to paradise?”

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