The Aloha Spirit
A Novel
Will be published approx. on 18. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-63152-723-4 (ISBN)
Description
Married at sixteen and the mother of two by nineteen, Dolores's quest to find the aloha spirit within herself-and to escape the abuse of her alcoholic husband-leads her to flee Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor for California, where she seeks to make a new life for herself. But her past isn't so easily left behind.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
497 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63152-723-4 (9781631527234)
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Linda Ulleseit, born and raised in Saratoga, California, has an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University. She is a member of the Hawaii Writers Guild, Marketing Chair for Women Writing the West, and a founding member of Paper Lantern Writers. Linda is the author of Under the Almond Trees, which was a semifinalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Contest, and The Aloha Spirit, to be released in 2020. Linda believes in the unspoken power of women living ordinary lives. Her books are the stories of women in her family who were extraordinary but unsung. She recently retired from teaching elementary school and now enjoys writing full-time, as well as cooking, leatherworking, reading, gardening, spending time with her family, and taking long walks with her dogs. She currently lives in San Jose with her husband. They have two adult sons and two yellow Labradors. For more about Linda and her books, visit: www.ulleseit.com