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050 00 $aPS3608.E477$bH68 2005
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100 1 $aHemmings, Kaui Hart.
245 10 $aHouse of thieves /$cKaui Hart Hemmings.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2005.
300 $a237 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 1 $a"In her debut collection of short stories, House of Thieves, Kaiu Hart Hemmings has set the islands of Hawaii as a backdrop - indeed, a foil - to describe bold, frustrated adolescents and adults as they wrestle with themselves and each other over the age-old issues of deprived freedom, misguided love, being cool, and being true; and as they experience together the loneliness of feeling miserable in paradise." "The nine stories in House of Thieves are told from varied points of view - a father, a child, a young woman, an adolescent boy, and more. Rooted in the circumstances and situations of island people, they reveal the mundane cycle of small triumphs and tragedies that make up the lives of ordinary people everywhere. A single mother's discovery of a pornographic magazine in her thirteen-year-old son's room sends her down a spiral of jealousy that ultimately guarantees her loss of him. A middle-aged man struggles with his secret hatred for his brother and finds a way to enact a revenge whose absolute destructiveness promises to heal him. A white man who is left by his native Hawaiian wife struggles to understand why he and his daughter, abandoned together, feel such deep resentment for each other. A boy who insists on the illusion of his happy family suddenly recognizes his father's lack of real love and comes to "the understanding that certain things are severed and they can't grow again, the sorrow that comes from loving a place that doesn't love you back."" "Hemmings's tart, confident voice plunges headfirst into the unfamiliar world of a Hawaii far from the tourist track, providing glimpses of the islands' divisive racial and class issues, as well as the proud heritage of kings and warriors and the legacy of colonialist and missionaries."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aHawaii$xSocial life and customs$vFiction.
650 0 $aUpper class families$vFiction.
650 0 $aTeenagers$vFiction.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3608.E477$iH68 2005