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A dusty, dreamy Hawaii rife with sexual frustration, loneliness and adolescent heartbreak will be the setting to the nine stories of Hemmings's bold debut collection. Misery adores company in "Final Girl," by which just one mother discovers a pornographic magazine in her 13-year-old son's room and turns on him despite herself, wishing he'd a greater portion of "that character-developing sadness. Instead, he's a kid who sings inside car." In the title story, intrepid preteen Kora is anxious to suit into her clique of Lolitaesque teenage friends—island girls "doing bad things in pretty places"—and is frightened of losing her best friend, Wendy, when Wendy's delinquent brother, Perry, resurfaces. In "Begin with an Outline," a lady is haunted by her imprisoned father, a notorious drug dealer; in "Island Cowboys," embittered, indebted Pete covets his brother's easy prosperity and finds forbidden solace in the niece. A 16-year-old boy pines for his social-climbing nanny in "Secret Clutch," simply to discover that she has brought up regarding his wealthy father; a teenage girl and her father's mistress produce a disturbing bond in "Location Scouts." At times Hemmings steers her troubled protagonists in predictable directions, but overall these are fresh, acerbic tales, offering a distinctive perspective on everyday routine in the vacation paradise. Agent, Witherspoon Associates. (June 20)
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Just because the individual land masses which make the Hawaiian Islands are worlds unto themselves, so, too, will be the characters Hemmings depicts on this penetrating exploration from the nature of families as well as the those who belong to them. Disappointment and isolation, frustration and regret inform each story's conflict, whether or not this is a father unprepared to raise his 10-year-old daughter while her mother lies in the coma, as with "The Minor Wars," or possibly a pack of teenage girls flirting with independence in "House of Thieves." Hemmings takes her characters' cues from your composition in the islands she knows so well, their volcanic cores smoldering just beneath the surface, either expected to lie dormant or susceptible to violent outbursts. Set against the tropical backdrop of sun, sand, and surf, Hemmings' stories are typical the more surreal for his or her perceptive juxtaposition of tumultuous emotions within this type of seemingly benign paradise. With a dynamic and imaginative voice, Hemmings infuses her stories with keen insight, and lavishes her characters with profound empathy. Carol Haggas
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