Review: ALOHA Where You Like Go? Driving to Satisfaction in a Honolulu Taxi

ALOHA Where You Like Go? Driving to Satisfaction in a Honolulu Taxi by Cloudia Charters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is an unusual novel that feels like a memoir. It chronicles a young woman's move from Pennsylvania to Hawaii and her growth from anger and despair to hope and love for others. June meets many characters as she transitions from an exotic dancer to a taxi driver to a social worker. I assumed her life bottomed out when she was a dancer and experimented with meth, but I was wrong. When she was a taxi driver, she experienced hopelessness and anger that threatened to consume her life. But she met another woman, older than herself, and wise beyond description. The woman, Aunty Nan, gently taught June how to uncover her true self and be re-born. 

The novel is given to travelers on the plane to Hawaii to acquaint them with the real life on the islands, not the life that tourists only see in hotels and beaches. It is filled with the language of the islands and even has a glossary and introduction to explain the language. The language ended being an important part of the book because it added reality and gave it flavor and depth.

I finished this book during a week of chaos and doubt in my own life. It genuinely helped me re-center and calm down and to put my trust in my choices. I envy Ms. Charters' sense of self and her outlook on life. It's a lovely book that I highly recommend.

Ms Charters blogs at Comfort Spiral. 

She is also on Twitter as @iCloudia_.

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