Title: Honey Girl
Description: The year is 1972. Fifteen-year-old Haunani "Nani" Grace Nuuhiwa is transplanted from her home in Hawaii to Santa Monica, California after her father's fatal heart attack. Now the proverbial fish-out-of-water, Nani struggles to adjust to her new life with her alcoholic white (haole) mother and the lineup of mean girls who rule State Beach.
Subjects: Mother and child, Fiction, Nineteen seventies, Lesbians, Teenage girls, Children's fiction, Youth, fiction
Places: Santa Monica (Calif.)