The Seagull's Gardener
by Pam Chun
Price: $4.99 USD. 55320 words.
Published on March 30, 2012. Nonfiction.
In the early 1900s Woody grew up running barefoot in the lush valleys of Territorial Hawaii. As he approaches ninety, he’s too busy to die. A tale told within tales with photos of Old Hawaii, food, and dreams, Pam Chun’s lyrical memoir of her father is their bond across time and distance. He wails against aging while she despairs of caring for him from 3,000 miles away.
Location: United States
Member Since: May 10, 2011
Pam Chun
Biography
Pam Chun’s first novel, THE MONEY DRAGON, for which she received a California Gubernatorial Commendation, was named one of 2002’s best books in Hawaii. Both THE MONEY DRAGON and her second novel, WHEN STRANGE GODS CALL, won the Ka Palapala Po`okela Award for excellence in literature about Hawaii.
Pam has been featured on National Public Radio, at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., at the National Archives and Records Administration’s Conference on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and in the video documentary, “Hawaii’s Chinatown.”
She is a storyteller at the Asian Art Museum was a Fiction judge for the Kiriyama Prize for Pacific Rim Literature.
Pam has been featured on National Public Radio, at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., at the National Archives and Records Administration’s Conference on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and in the video documentary, “Hawaii’s Chinatown.”
She is a storyteller at the Asian Art Museum was a Fiction judge for the Kiriyama Prize for Pacific Rim Literature.
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Books
When Strange Gods Call
by Pam Chun
Price: Free! 72490 words. Published on May 19, 2011. Fiction.
2005 Winner - Ka Palapala Po'okela Award Winner! Hawaii, a tropical paradise alive with history and myths, lures elegant Miki from art-rich San Francisco and her childhood friend Alex from the jungle covered temples in South East Asia. Generations of animosity between their families, marked by death and deceit, threaten the couple in this tale lush with stormy spirits and passions of the past.
Price: Free! 72490 words. Published on May 19, 2011. Fiction.
2005 Winner - Ka Palapala Po'okela Award Winner! Hawaii, a tropical paradise alive with history and myths, lures elegant Miki from art-rich San Francisco and her childhood friend Alex from the jungle covered temples in South East Asia. Generations of animosity between their families, marked by death and deceit, threaten the couple in this tale lush with stormy spirits and passions of the past.