Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit politics Saturday Night at the Pahala

Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre

was selected for the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project

This pointed to our need to learn and understand the authentic Hawaiian culture in order to increase our effectiveness in helping those we serve

Ko‘olaupoko

Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit politics Saturday Night at the PahalaIn this beautiful and moving collection, Gail Harada deftly traverses the boundaries between poetry, memoir, and fiction, demonstrating a rare versatility of craft. The prose has the lyric sensibility of the born poet and the poems are infused with the storyteller's magic. While many of the selections are grounded in a sense of placethe well loved geography of Hawaiiit is a dynamic sense of place, shot through with a humor and irony that never gives