I absolutely loved this book! Lana is a young woman estranged from her
father and living on a different Hawaiian island from her. She rushes to her
father when he tells her he is very sick. She longs to reach him in time to
tell him she forgives him, but he dies before she arrives. The attack on Pearl
Harbor in 1941 happens the next day. Her father has a home in the hills of
Hawaii which he has built for survival purposes when talk of possible war
breaking out. She takes two daughters of
German parents and two of Japanese descent with her. She writes with
compassion, descriptive, and love of the mystery and magic of the islands. It
is a beautiful story even though the internment of German and Japanese citizens
is depicted. She writes about surviving
terrible times. She and an Army major fall in love. Even though there is a
mixure of characters who are very different, she writes about their many
differences with respect and love and who constitute a family. I will keep this book and read it many times.
I highly recommend it to lovers of historical fiction, romance, and family.
