Lillianhowan - Lillian Howan

photo: Bruno Leou-on

University of Hawai’i Press (2017)

The Charm Buyers describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change: Tahiti during the last years of nuclear testing in the Pacific.

“The Charm Buyers isn’t just a book, it’s a world―full of the complexity and beauty of life, masterfully created. Reading this felt like diving into a reality both eerily familiar and yet artistically brand new. Lillian Howan’s talent is rare, refreshing, and casts a spell from page one.” —Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day and Pym

“The Charm Buyers is a thought-provoking insight into a time of cultural change. It captures an essence of existing between reality and surreality, dreaming and wakefulness, the past and the future.” —Foreword Reviews

https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-charm-buyers/

Deeply grateful to read at two events:

Seventeen Syllables and Friends reading at J-Sei, Sunday March 4 at 2 pm, with Jay Dayrit, Brian Komei Dempster, Caroline Kim-Brown, Mari L’Esperance, Grace Loh Prasad, Brynn Saito, and Marianne Villanueva. 1285 66th Street, Emeryville, California.

Ms Aligned 2: Women Writing About Men reading at Eastwind Books of Berkeley, Saturday March 10 at 3 pm, with Connie Pan, Allison Landa, and Sarah Kobrinsky.  2066 University Avenue, Berkeley, California.

Baobob Tree, Manoa Valley

Spring Green