Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i

By Garrett Hongo

Book Overview

Part memoir, part Japanese American family chronicle, part luminous work of natural history, Volcano tells what happened when Hongo returned to his birthplace in Hawai'i, as a young man, to reclaim its dreamlike landscape and his own elusive past. A magnificant evocation of heritage and place.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679767487
• ISBN13: 9780679767480
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Mislabled as a memoir of Hawaii, it's a spiritual odyssey

This enormously moving book is presented more as a natural history of a land, Hawaii, when it really is a history of one man's soul. Touchingly self revealing, it shares the torment and the ecstasy of one person's search for meaning. I felt the natural history information, the eternal tree and the omnipresent volcano, were metaphors, not the meat of the book. I encourage readers on a personal path of understanding to take on VOLCANO as a guidebook of a singular journey - one that may resonate with many of us. It is wonderful