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. Layers of meaning unfold through carefully depicted images and scenes centered around a mother whose grit and passions are timeless. The reader is emersed in culture country and coffee as he/she 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 a kitchen filled with gingerbread house candies nutmeg turmeric anise and lucky bottom fish to steam on the barbeque grill.</p><p></p>