Let's start in Hawai'i...
*Moloka'i by Alan Brennert takes place in the 1890s features a young Hawaiian girl who is diagnosed with Hansen's disease (leprosy, as it was known at the time) and is sent to the Kalaupapa, the leper colony on Moloka'i.
From one leper colony to another...
*Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler is a non-fiction book about the only leprosarium in the continental United States, located in Carville, LA and operational from 1894-1999.
Author Pam Fessler was a journalist for NPR, as was our next author.
It. Goes. So. Fast.: A Year of No Do-Overs by Mary Louise Kelly is the All Things Considered's host's reckoning with her struggle to balance work and family as her oldest son is a senior in high school.
From a memoir about parenting, to a memoir about a child-free woman who has to move back in with her parents.
*Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home by Rhonda Janzen is both hilarious and moving, as Janzen tells her story of going back home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.
When I think of humor, I think of Dave Barry...
*Tricky Business by Dave Barry is where you find out what happens when a gambling cruise ship with a very ... interesting ... collection of people on board gets hit with a massive storm.
Of course, Dave Barry is very proud to be a Floridian.
And so we end in Florida.
And there you have it: Hawai'i to Florida in six books.
*indicates that I've read the book
Let's start in Hawai'i...
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