The Lion in the Lei Shop
A Fiction, World War II, Historical book. Our dilemma of private hopelessness was no different from the dilemma of anyone facing a distasteful and immutable...
Marty Langsmith is only five years old when a strange thunder rolls across the Hawaiian sky and life as she knows it explodes into flames. With her mother, April, and hundreds of other women and children, Marty is evacuated from the ruins of Pearl Harbor and sent into a brave new world overshadowed by uncertainty and grief. Feeling abandoned by her deployed Army officer father in the wake of the attack, Marty is haunted by nightmares of the lion in the lei shop, a creature that’s said to devour happy children. But as the years pass, mother and daughter slowly begin to embrace their new life and make peace with...
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Our dilemma of private hopelessness was no different from the dilemma of anyone facing a distasteful and immutable situation in a world where all trials are personal and relative. In Kaye Starbird, The Lion in the Lei Shop //
The Pearl Harbor attack that began US involvement in WWII I usually thought about from the point of view of the soldiers that fought or died that day but the Lion in the Lei Shop takes that event and views it through the eyes of a wife and very young daughter who were on the base and ultimately have to not only say goodbye to their... I only read this because it was part of Amazon's Prime Kindle Lending Library and it sounded somewhat interesting and again, it was FREE, but it turned out to be a case of the dreaded good sounding premise but just an okay book. Marty and her mother April both recount how their lives changed on the morning of Dec. 7th 1941 and of the... This is a different look at Pearl Harbor Day. The chapters go back & forth between April, who is a wife & mother, and her daughter Marty. Marty's dad is in the service, they are living at Scofield Barracks on Oahu on Dec 7th when the Japanese attacked. Normally you are hearing about what is going on right at Pearl Harbor, here you are...
