This
triptych of Hawaiian stories blooms like tropical flowers: fiercely
colored, with a trumpet's shape. Death and violence, longing
and sorrow: love here is worn close to the bone but gets released
in passionate, stark songs. "Love in the Blood" is
a scintillating gem to leave a reader dazed and changed. Lisa
Gonzales writes with heart—and with a haunting and haunted
soul.
— Katherine
Vaz
Lisa Gonzales conjures up the
internal landscape of family, of love and of a place so familiar
we too come to hear and know its many voices. This is
a world often seen through the eyes of the young and still
Gonzales is able to reveal this world’s complexity, its
darkness and beauty through her subtle detail, through language
that draws readers in and leaves them with a strong sense of
knowing what cannot be said.
