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Synopsis
The daughter of a homeless Hawaiian and Mayflower descendent describes the fierce loyalty and love her sisters and she felt for their mother in the face of drug problems, her desperate search to find her mother when she went missing in 2002, and the realities of homelessness and drug abuse in modern Hawaii. 60,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker.
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Review
"West of Then is a daughter's memoir both appalling and inspiring....She does not write with a grievance, or with a need for moral vindication, but with the gravity of love."
-- Susannah Moore, Vogue
"In a book that mingles a rainbow of intoxicating Hawaiian memories with the multigenerational story of her family's disintegration, Ms. Smith winds up capturing all the strain and anger and messiness of the trouble she faces."
-- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"Tara Bray Smith's words lift off the page, hot and lucid, like the light of the islands she loves. Far, far more than a memoir, this is an anthem for hope and survival wrapped in startling, sometimes surprising poetry. Read this book and then keep it close to you; you'll want to read it again and again."
-- Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
"To read Smith is...a pleasure like that of reading Joan Didion."
-- Elle
About the Author
Tara Bray Smith was born and raised in Hawaii. She now lives and writes in New York City. West of Then is her first book.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0743236793
- ISBN 13 9780743236799
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages320
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