Book Launch & Signings for KAPOHO: A Memoir of a Modern Pompeii

Under the Rising Sun, | The enemy came | Wearing my face.
My face changed forever that Sunday afternoon…The day Mr. Ito went running around the village with the news was the day my face no longer belonged to me.

Join us to celebrate the launch of
KAPOHO: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii
by Frances H. Kakugawa
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
6pm – 7:30pm
Native Books at Ward Warehouse
Reading & Light Refreshments
Free & Open to the Public

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In KAPOHO: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii, her fifth release from Watermark Publishing, Frances H. Kakugawa shares the stories of her life in the town of Kapoho on the Island of Hawai‘i—a town that no longer exists. From the wartime drama of “The Enemy Wore My Face”—recalling her instant transformation to distrusted “Jap” after the bombing of Pearl Harbor—to the sweet poignancy of “A One-Chopstick Marriage”—the story of her parents’ relationship—Frances weaves a tapestry of memories drawn from life in a Hawaiian plantation village now buried beneath a blanket of lava.

KAPOHO will be available in bookstores and direct from Watermark Publishing online beginning December 7. To learn more, visit our online shop.

Additional signing events where you can meet Frances and get KAPOHO before Christmas:

Saturday, December 10 | 11am – 12pm
Barnes & Noble, Kahala Mall
4211 Waialae Ave.
(808) 737-3323

Saturday, December 17 | 11am – 1pm
Book Gallery, Hilo
259 Keawe St.
(808) 935-4943

Saturday, December 17 | 3pm – 5pm
“A Writer’s Pen” Workshop—The Writing Process and Memoir Writing
East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo
141 Kalakaua St.

Sunday, December 18 | 1pm – 2pm
Basically Books, Hilo
160 Kamehameha Ave.
(808) 961-0144