"Mary Troy gives us characters whose daily lives trespass upon their fantasies. The Hawaii these characters inhabit topples the cliches we have been conditioned to believe in Funny, touching, and hauntingly real, these ten stories capture an island landscape where hope is 'as thick as steam,' and everything - including racial identity and love - is complicated and conditional." - Lucinda Roy, author, Lady Moses; "With gentle humor and a fine eye for what matters between people, these stories offer up the lives of survivors with great dignity in prose as enchanting and as sharply made as the Islands themselves." - Lee Martin, author, Turning Bones; "If this is your first trip to Hawaii, you're blessed to have Mary Troy as your Virgil. You'll be getting off the beach and looking beyond the splashy vistas you know from postcards and movies into the lives of people struggling to recapture what they've lost or to embrace what they've never had." - John Dufresne, author, Deep in the Shade of Paradise"
