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Rightful Identity
Rightful Identity
Rightful Identity
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Rightful Identity is a story of three island families in Hawaii, spanning from the 60s to present day. They are hanai, meaning ‘extended family’ supporting each other in ways they know how-from the heart. As inexperienced teenagers, they cope with infidelity and teen pregnancies. As adults and parents, they struggle with memory loss and transgender issues.

Far out on the horizon but beyond reach, the bombing practices on Kahoolawe distracts Asa Kukini as he sadfully watches his culture demeaned by the U.S. Navy. From a different viewpoint, Midge Tanner, a young girl from California, thinks she’s seeing UFOs.

Iwalani can’t decide between the two brothers, Asa or Kane, but sides with Asa when she realizes she is pregnant. Nani Anela conceives three children by two husbands, and Sophie Correa buries her young husband. At the funeral, their offsprings, Sonny, Lilian, Momi, Kaipo and Honey Girl meet and begin their lifelong relationship.

Sonny’s transgender decision affects the family’s dynamics. Rightful Identity gives the reader a glimpse into their private thoughts, and how they cope with their own and each other’s maturity. They bond together with unconditional love and island moxie as secrets unfold, and modern ideals affect their island ways.

In Rightful Identity, walk through Kihei in the mid 20th century, attend a wedding luau, and sit in on a local funeral. Wonder about the spirits that materialize, and experience the storm that rips their home apart.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 5, 2011
ISBN9781466107625
Rightful Identity
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Jackie Pias Carlin

Jackie Pias Carlin is a lecturer at the University of Hawaii Maui College in Eng 100 and Eng 257-Literature of Hawaii. Carlin is also a watercolorist. Rightful Identity is her second book. She also wrote Spirit of the Village A Maui Memoir based on her childhood in a sugar plantation camp on Maui.

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