Recommended when you’re looking for something different, and/or a book that will make you feel a little bit better about the world. I’m glad I gave it a try, because it’s a charming, uplifting story.
Appreciating how everyone and everything has a role, or a place, that will help them become their best self. Living in the moment, and doing what feels right. It’s all about being in touch with your surroundings, the people and the environment. He Mele A Hilo has a fair amount of magical realism and-either because of thar magic or despite it-feels like a deeply Hawaiian story. But as the characters start to interact with one another, largely due to an upcoming hula show, they begin to help each other see a way out of their troubles. The story has an ensemble cast of about seven main characters, each of whom is hurting in one way or another due to illness, being unable to move on after the loss of a spouse, feeling out of place or lost, or unresolved issues from the sins of one’s parents. There’s a glossary in the back of the book, but it doesn’t take very long to get used to the occasional unfamiliar word, which can also usually be figured out from context. It is written in an apparently authentic dialect called Hawaiian Pidgin English. “That’s all you ever had to be.” He Mele A Hilo is a book I’m sure I never would have read, or likely even heard of, if I hadn’t been given a copy by my son’s fiancée. “Just be yourself, Nona,” said the old lady in red. Jonny-Boy took another bite of the salad, then some chicken.
Something has to be there, between the main kau kau, to make everything one true meal… Something would be missing-no matter how good the tempura was, or the katsu, or even the chicken. But without mac salad, plate lunch wouldn’t be plate lunch. No one ever paid much attention to mac salad-it was just a side dish.
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