When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol OatesVividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty.
Joyce Carol OatesThe folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.
Joyce Carol Oates