house of many gods

 

since one of my goals this year is to spend a little less time on the computer, i have been going back to one of my favorite pastimes before the internet age started to consume far too many hours in my day. with my trusty library card by my side, the pages of my book log are slowly being filled up with a concentrated effort to beef up my woefully lacking hawaiian reading list.

enter kiana davenport's poetic novel house of many gods which follows the lives of a tight-knit yet dysfunctional westside ohana through the eyes of ana, a young girl yearning to break the pattern of broken dreams littered throughout her family tree. the story reveals a side of the island that is often cast aside and sterotyped by weaving its tumultuous history and ancient traditions throughout ana's journey of discovery.