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Kirby Wright

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http://www.goodreads.com/KirbyWright

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Honolulu, The United States

gender

male

website

http://lemonshark.blogspot.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs

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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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Average rating: 4.39 · 97 ratings · 7 reviews · 50 distinct works · Similar authors

	Punahou Blues 3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	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 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	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 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	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 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998	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
	PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE, Part 1 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 2 editions	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 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	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
	THIS OCEAN'S CHANGING 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	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
	LOOK WHAT THE EASTER BUNNY BROUGHT ME 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions	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
	CREATURE WORLD 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	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
	UNCLE CHIPPER of Molokai 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	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)

by J.K. Rowling

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The Complete Stories

by Franz Kafka

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In Our Time

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Kirby Wright wants to read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce read in March, 2008	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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Kirby Wright wants to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	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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Quotes by Kirby Wright

“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

tags: coming-of-age, memoir, molokai

12 people liked it

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

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

3 people liked it