East Wind, Rain: A Novel
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl comes this provocative, compelling novel of irrevocable consequences for people thrust unwittingly into a devastating war of nations and American identity—based on a little-known true event.
December 1941. The inhabitants of Niihau lead a simple life. Mostly Hawaiian natives, they work the ranch of Niihau's eccentric haole owner, who keeps his island totally isolated from the outside world, devoid of cars, phones, and electricity. But then a plane crash-lands there, and although the villagers rescue the pilot, they have no idea that he has just attacked Pearl Harbor. War has now come to Eden, slowly undoing its tranquillity, widening the cracks in the already troubled marriage of Irene and Yoshio Harada, the island's only Japanese-American couple. It will test everyone's loyalties and all they believe in . . . as Paradise, once within reach, slowly falls victim to its own isolated innocence.
Caroline Paul
Caroline Paul's most recent book is Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology. She is also the author of the historical novel East Wind, Rain, and the memoir, Fighting Fire, about her career as a San Francisco firefighter. Her forthcoming book The Gutsy Girl, Takes for your life of Ridiculous Adventure will be published March 1, 2016. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5From the remaining and often conflicting details of an obscure historical event the week following the Pearl Harbor attack, Caroline Paul creates a very likely scenario to explain why two descendants of Japanese immigrants, both born in Hawaii, ultimately wound up helping a man who had attacked their country. She is especially good at hypothesizing what were the thoughts of the different characters (including those who died) as the event unfolded. While Howard and Shigenori Nishikaichi come from two different worlds, they are both united in their belief that they must unfailingly serve their respective emperors - Nishikaichi for Showa (Hirohito), Howard for the religious zealot Aylmer Robinson, who owned the island at the time. The actions of Mr. Robinson, in his own take on "The White Man's Burden", educating the island people in religion and nothing else, keeping them isolated, childlike, and subservient, can't be criticized enough for creating the circumstances leading to the unnecessary deaths of two men.