What do you do when your world has fallen apart, and there doesn't seem to be a way to put it back together? Abby Kai ulu (Kaw ee aw oo loo) gets the chance to start over when her family relocates from Hawaii to a small town on the Oregon coast. But she's hiding a secret. Leaving the past and the cultural lessons of her Hawaiian grandfather behind, Abby redefines who she is to hide it. There's Good Abby - she makes and follows the rules - and there's Bad Abby - she always questions them. But both leave Abby wondering: which one is she really? Her road of self-discovery takes her on a journey where she must discover the truth of who she is as a daughter, a sister, a woman, a Hawaiian and as a friend. But just when she thinks her world might be coming back together, it falls apart all over again.
Cl Walters Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)
Vanaf haar kindertijd werd de wereld van de auteur gedefinieerd door verhalen en fantasie. Ze heeft haar leven gebouwd rond deze twee passies, waarbij ze zich toelegt op zowel het onderwijzen van verhalen als het schrijven van fantasierijke werken. Deze toewijding aan verhaal en verbeelding heeft haar reis gevormd, van haar vormende jaren in Oregon tot haar huidige leven op Hawaï. Dagelijks lezen en schrijven zijn essentieel voor haar creatieve praktijk.
Gabe Daniels always figured his DNA is flawed. One only has to look to his past to see it, and it's why he's tried to hide it in new layers of his life: his new home, his adoptive parents, Seth, Abby. But darkness is always at his heels. With the impending death of his former best friend - a death for which he feels responsible - the depression, the broken relationships, the day-to-day struggle, and the monster trying to break out of him have left a debris field in his wake. Gabe decides the broken past that made him was always going to lead him down the road of no return. It is in his DNA, after all, in the biological parents who made him.