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About The Pohaku

From the award-winning author of Hula , a dazzling saga about the generations of women tasked with protecting the history and place that made them. A young woman lies comatose in a hospital, watched by her estranged grandmother. Mystery surrounds the woman’s fall—did she jump off the cliff, or was she swept away by a wave? Her grandmother suspects it is linked to the pohaku, an ancient stone that their family was tasked with protecting. In this novel spanning generations across Hawai`i and California, it soon becomes clear that the pohaku’s story must sur­vive if there is to be any hope of the fam­ily’s reconciliation with their home, with nature, and with each other. Reminiscent of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing , Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko , and Tommy Orange’s There, There , The Pohaku is an immersive and bold novel about the his­tory, perseverance, and resilience of the Hawaiian people.