Books on a Theme - May's theme is Hawaiian/Polynesian Authors/Experience

Book Club where we will read from a choice of books that cover a different theme each month. This month's theme is Hawaiian and Polynesian Authors/Experience. May is Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Month and historically, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander stories are under represented amongst the AANHPI group - their populations straddle both Asian (since Hawaii has a lot of mixed heritage due to Asian immigration/migrant labor) and Indigenous cultures/identities plus colonization, gentrification and tourists. Fiction & Non Fiction and Including titles/authors of Maori, Guam and Polynesian descent/diaspora.

Pick one of these books to read and discuss! If you're motivated to read more than one, go for it! If you want to read or discuss a different book not listed here on the theme, feel free to share that book with the group. I tend to pick a lot of titles that I have either read already or have heard of or obtained from reliable curated book lists. If you don't have time to read any of the books, but want to listen and/or partake in the discussion anyway, feel free!

Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani by Queen Liliuokalani
- Sharks in the Time of Saviors *by Kawai Strong Washburn
**The Legends and Myths of Hawai‘i by David Kalākaua
- Kalaupapa: A Collective Memory *by Anwei Skinsnes Law
**Mutuwhenua by Patricia Grace
- No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies *by Julian Aguon
House of Many Gods, Song of the Exile, or Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport
- Breadfruit, Frangipani, and Tiare in Bloom by *Célestine Hitiura Vaite
**Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Māhealani Madden
- Auē by Becky Manawatu
Hawaiian Son: The Musical Journey of Eddie Kamae
by James D. Houston with Eddie Kamae
- Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama (on the list because description says, "but for Islanders the book is especially loved for its portrait of a local kid from a fractured family thriving thanks to Hawai‘i’s inclusive values and community consciousness"
**Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
- Hawai‘i One Summer *by Maxine Hong Kingston

Feel free to read something not on the list!