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Patsy's Gingerbread Fantasy, 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, Punaluʻu 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.

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Darlene M. Javar, a retired educator/principal, relishes her rural life in Ka`ū, Hawaii. She has a new-found appreciation for time-time with the mo'opuna (grandchildren), time with the aina (the land-that which feeds), and time for poetry. Patsy's Gingerbread Fantasy is her first chapbook collection.

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