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Kirby Michael Wright

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Born

Honolulu, The United States

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http://lemonshark.blogspot.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Faulkner, Hemingway, FItzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Joyce

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January 2008

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Kirby Wright is an American writer best known for his coming of age island novel PUNAHOU BLUES and the epic novel MOLOKA'I NUI AHINA, which is based on the life and times of Wright's paniolo grandmother. Both novels deal with the racial tensions between haoles (whites) and the indigenous Hawaiians, and illustrate the challenge for characters who, as the product of mixed-race marriages, must try to bridge the two cultures and overcome prejudice from both camps.
Wright's work is primarily concerned with the complexities of multicultural Hawaii, Killahaole Day, prejudices against (and within) island high schools, and the tricky matter of interracial dating. He incorporates the local creole language into his novels and was the first author to do ...more

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—“Visually stunning and a real page-turner. This story would make a breathtaking TV series or feature-length movie.” —Dawn Lowe, Editor, Brilliant Flash Fiction

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Published on February 22, 2021 11:07 • Tags: englishman, hawaii, honolulu, horses, love-affair, molokai, punahou, sfsu, ucsd, waikiki

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	The Queen of Moloka'i Book 1: Based On A True Story 3.88 avg rating — 97 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Punahou Blues 3.20 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE KAHUNA WOMAN OF MOLOKAI 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE END, MY FRIEND: Prelude to the Apocalypse 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	INSIDER'S GUIDE TO MOLOKAI 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before the City: Selected Poems & Prose 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	HOTEL STREET BLUES 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	West Wind Review it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PAKALAKI MEMORIES 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)

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This is the opening chapter of my forthcoming memoir!
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Intriguing take on locals vs. haoles in the honolulu school system. Highly recommended for island readers and well as those on the mainland.
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An interesting story from a remote island in Hawaii. When you have trespassers on remote property sometimes you have to take the law into your own hands, like in the Wild West. Highly recommended.
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This is somehat of a rehashing of the Jack London story found in Tales Of Hawaii. It would take a Herculean effort to turn narrative verse into a novel and, while I admire the effort, the book falls flat. Except for Hawaiian given names, the incorpor ...more
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“For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.”
― Kirby Wright, Moloka'i Nui Ahina: Summers on the Lonely Isle

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“Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.”
― Kirby Wright

tags: award-winning, hawaiian-poet, poetry, prose-poem

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tags: coming-of-age, memoir, molokai

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