Patsy's Gingerbread Fantasy

<p><em>Patsy's Gingerbread Fantasy</em> set in multicultural Hawaii includes poems of ohana resolve and perseverance aloha transcending time and place as a family endures and grieves for losses across decades- a father then a mother. Layers of meaning unfold through carefully depicted images and scenes centered around a mother whose grit and passions are timeless and transformative. The reader is emersed in culture country coffee and kuleana/responsibility as the reader travels to rural Pahala Town in the middle of the Pacific Ocean Punalu?u Beach during a tidal wave Queen's Medical Center on Oahu and back to the front pew of a small-town church. Everyday items become symbols of loss and longing- keys steel toe boots cookbooks newspaper gold jewelry and always the coffee. Poems crystalize memories coveted across generations.</p>