Our first list 50 Essential Hawai‘i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime was one of our most popular stories ever, but it didn’t do justice to our flourishing regional literary scene. So here we go again: More of da kine, only bigger, broader, deeper.
Wing Tek Lum has been researching and writing about the turn of the 20th century in Honolulu’s Chinatown. His grandfather had a store in the old Oʻahu Railway terminal across Aʻala Park.