Tide Marks: A Life Between Two Waters

Between Honolulu's tourist beaches and the sacred shores known only to locals, Kawika Ione Kale learned early that some stories live in the space between land and sea. Hawaiian traditions passed down through his grandmother's hands. Mainland education that promised opportunity but demanded he become someone else.

Night fishing with uncles who spoke in proverbs. Confrontations with developers eyeing ancestral lands. The bittersweet work of teaching his children a language nearly lost. Each chapter flows like the ocean. Sometimes gentle. Sometimes fierce. Always returning to shore. A memoir about reclamation, about finding solid ground in shifting sands."