Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit Geography Author & Illustrator Born and

Author & Illustrator Born and raised on Oʻahu

She is a two-time recipient of the Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence in Literature awarded by the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers Association

a collection of some 50 tales from 18 Marshallese storytellers

and parents

Exercises are made up of writing samples

Beyond Green Tea and Grapefruit Geography Author & Illustrator Born andIn this beautiful and moving collection, Gail Harada deftly traverses the boundaries between poetry, memoir, and fiction, demonstrating a rare versatility of craft. The prose has the lyric sensibility of the born poet and the poems are infused with the storyteller's magic. While many of the selections are grounded in a sense of placethe well loved geography of Hawaiiit is a dynamic sense of place, shot through with a humor and irony that never gives