Blood Work and Other Stories
By: Donald A. Carreira Ching | Softcover
What we carry. What we inherit. What we leave behind. Seventeen stories of connection and survival in a place caught between whatâs sacred and whatâs sold.
On the Windward side of OÊ»ahu, change moves fastâdevelopers buy up neighborhoods, locals move away, and families struggle to hold on to what remains. Beneath each loss, however, lie quiet acts of resilience that refuse to be forgotten.
Against a backdrop of economic hardship, housing instability, cultural transition, and environmental decline, Donald A. Carreira Ching offers readers a deeply intimate portrait of contemporary Hawaiâi. His characters live in a Hawaiâi far removed from tourist postcards, navigating sorrow, displacement, and the weight of generational trauma. Yet even in these quiet, overlooked corners, they hold fast to the connections that root them in place and community.
With grace and grit, Carreira Ching renders Hawaiâi as few others have, bearing witness to whatâs being lost while illuminating what endures: love, memory, and the deep connections between people and place. This collection affirms him as a vital voice in contemporary American fiction and a key contributor to the evolving canon of Hawaiâi literature.
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By: Donald A. Carreira Ching | Softcover
What we carry. What we inherit. What we leave behind. Seventeen stories of connection and survival in a place caught between whatâs sacred and whatâs sold.
On the Windward side of OÊ»ahu, change moves fastâdevelopers buy up neighborhoods, locals move away, and families struggle to hold on to what remains. Beneath each loss, however, lie quiet acts of resilience that refuse to be forgotten.
Against a backdrop of economic hardship, housing instability, cultural transition, and environmental decline, Donald A. Carreira Ching offers readers a deeply intimate portrait of contemporary Hawaiâi. His characters live in a Hawaiâi far removed from tourist postcards, navigating sorrow, displacement, and the weight of generational trauma. Yet even in these quiet, overlooked corners, they hold fast to the connections that root them in place and community.
With grace and grit, Carreira Ching renders Hawaiâi as few others have, bearing witness to whatâs being lost while illuminating what endures: love, memory, and the deep connections between people and place. This collection affirms him as a vital voice in contemporary American fiction and a key contributor to the evolving canon of Hawaiâi literature.
