num_pages: 352
description: Part memoir, part Japanese American family chronicle, part luminous work of natural history, Volcano tells what happened when Hongo returned to his birthplace in Hawai'i, as a young man, to reclaim its dreamlike landscape and his own elusive past. A magnificant evocation of heritage and place.
language: English
title: Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
titlecomplete: Volcano: A Memoir of Hawai'i
genres: Autobiography, Nonfiction, Travel, Biography Memoir, Poetry, Memoir
ratings_count: 90
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group