Bøker av Frances H Kakugawa

In Can I Have Your Pearl Bracelet? award-winning author, poet and advice columnist Frances H. Kakugawa presents stories and poems gleaned from a lifetime search for answers to life's existential questions. This rich anthology introduces a memorable cast of characters in adventures ranging from teaching in Micronesia to the pitfalls of publishing to growing up in a Hawaiian village later buried by lava. Here are insights shared and lessons learned in Kakugawa's long career as an educator and as a sought-after speaker on creative writing, children's poetry and eldercare. Can I Have Your Pearl Bracelet? is her seventeenth book.

Who knew a "kindergarten dropout" could make it so far? Restless and headstrong, Frances Kakugawa was raised amid the anti-Japanese fervor of wartime Hawai'i. Back then, she longed to leave her hardscrabble hometown in the shadow of Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, with its kerosene lamps and outhouses stocked with Sears catalogs for toilet paper. As a child, Kakugawa pretended she was the long-lost daughter of the emperor who would reclaim her and restore her to her royal life-perhaps tomorrow, or maybe the next day. The imperial carriage never arrived, but Kakugawa did follow the path of her dreams, building a career as a teacher, an acclaimed poet and a nationally recognized authority on family caregiving and education. The Hali'a Aloha Series publishes personal essays, memoir, poetry and prose. The series celebrates moments big and small, harnessing the power of short forms to preserve the lived experiences of the storytellers.