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Shark Dialogues
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“An epic saga of seven generations of one family encompasses the tumultuous history of Hawaii as a Hawaiian woman gathers her four granddaughters together in an erotic tale of villains and dreamers, queens and revolutionaries, lepers and healers” (Publishers Weekly).
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“Interesting and inspiring, sometimes a challenging journey but worth the effort”
“A mournful, defiant, and beautiful reckoning with what colonization has done to Hawaii. Davenport doesn’t offer easy redemption, but she insists that remembering, retelling, and reclaiming are the first steps toward healing. In portraying how cultural erasure seeps into flesh, blood, and soul, the novel becomes not just a story, but a ceremony of survival.
“It is not just the land they took, but the breath of us. They stole our stories. Made us ashamed of our names, our brown skin, our language. They taught us to forget.”
“She gave up her throne to save lives. And they called her weak. They called her traitor. They jailed her in her own palace and made her write their lies.”
“What are we now? Tour guides in grass skirts. Surfers and waitresses. We sell our paradise while our families rot in shanties on the hills.”
“We don’t know our real names. The ones before the birth certificates. We lost our chants. Our genealogy is a burned scroll.”
“They said don’t speak it. Hawaiian is dead, they said. But I hear it in the wind. In the surf. It’s not dead. Just waiting.”
Davenport gives voice to the historical trauma of Hawaii’s last monarch. Liliʻuokalani's dignified surrender is reinterpreted by the colonizers as weakness, revealing the cruel inversion of narratives imposed by imperial power. She captures the psychological violence of colonization. The erasure goes beyond territory—it strikes at cultural memory and self-worth, breaking continuity with ancestral identity. She exposes the bitter contradiction of Hawaii’s tourist economy—an industry that commodifies native culture while displacing its people and impoverishing their descendants. Not exactly what tourists want to see and know.”
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