Set in Hilo\, Hawai'i\, a sweeping saga of
tradition\, culture\, family\, history\, and connection that unfolds thro
ugh the lives of three generations of women--a brilliant blend of \;
"There's no running away on an island. Soon enough\, you end up where you started."
\nHi'i is the youngest of the legendary Naup aka dynasty\, only daughter of Laka\, once the pride of Hilo\; granddaught er of Hulali\, Hula matriarch on the Big Island. But the Naupka legacy is in jeopardy\, buckling under the weight of loaded silences and unexplained absences\, most notably the sudden disappearance of Laka when Hi'i was a child. Hi'i dreams of healing the rifts within her family by becoming the next Miss Aloha Hula--and proving herself worthy of carrying on the family dynasty. She demonstrates her devotion to her culture through hula--the b eating heart of her people expressed through the movement of her hips and feet.
\nYet she has always felt separate from her community\, and th e harder she tries to prove she belongs--dancing in the halau until her bo nes ache--the wider the distance seems to grow. Soon\, fault lines begin t o form\, and secrets threaten to erupt. Everyone wants to know\, Hi'i most of all: what really happened when her mother disappeared\, and why haven' t she and her grandmother spoken since? When a devastating revelation invo lving Hi'i surfaces\, the entire community is faced with a momentous decis ion that will affect everyone--and determine the course of Hi'i's future.< /p>\n
Part incantation\, part rallying cry\, \;Hula \;i s a love letter to a stolen paradise and its people. Told in part by the t ribal We\, it connects Hawaii's tortured history to its fractured present through the story of the Naupaka family. The evolution of the Hawaiian Sov ereignty movement is reflected in the journeys of these defiant women and their community\, in whose struggle we sense the long-term repercussions o f blood quantum laws and colonization\, the relationship between tribe and belonging and the universal question: what makes a family?
\n-from Goodreads
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