![]() ![]() There follow years of drudgery in which she works as an adult, laundering clothes for many people at least six days a week as part of her hānai arrangement. ![]() She feels abandoned, with no idea when or if her father will send for her or return. He leaves 7-year-old Dolores with a large family on Oahu in an arrangement called hānai, an informal adoption. Papa, a sugar cane cutter from Spain who worked in Hawaii, decides to take his son Pablo with him to seek his fortune in California. Her story starts in 1922 the place, multiethnic, multilingual Hawaii. All she understood was the giving away, leaving her to live with a family not her own.” Papa had tried to explain the Hawaiian custom of hānai to her. Neither he nor her older brother, Pablo, ever said that, but every detail of their leaving told her so. “Dolores’s father deemed her useless when she was seven. In Linda Ulleseit’s novel The Aloha Spirit, we meet the plucky heroine, Dolores, as her father leaves her. Top Chanticleer Marketing Articles & How To Tips.Chanticleer SHORTLIST, SEMI-FINALIST, & Finalist Digital Badges.Book Genre & Category Descriptions of our Book Awards.Chanticleer Awards Deadlines and Announcement Projections.Chanticleer Non-Fiction Book Awards for Instruction & Insight. ![]()
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