A great read is Honolulu Stories: Two Centuries of Writing, edited by Gavan Daws and Bennett Hymer (2008), which has hundreds of writers (from Mark Twain to Robert Louis Stevenson to Jack London to James Jones to second-grade school kids) all telling their stories about Hawaii's most famous city. Lois-Ann Yamanaka uses a very 'local' voice and stark depictions of life in the islands in her fabulous novels Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers (1996), Blu's Hanging (1997), and Heads by Harry (1999). Davenport skillfully weaves legends and myths of Hawaii into the 'real life' reality that Pono and her family face in the complex Hawaii of today.

The novel tells the story of Pono, the larger-than-life matriarch, and her four daughters of mixed races. For a more contemporary look at life in Hawaii today, one of the best novels is Shark Dialogues, by Kiana Davenport (1995). This epic novel manages to put the island's history into chronological order, but remember, it is still fiction, and very sanitized fiction, too. Fiction - The first book people think about is James A.

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