Project Namahana: A Novel

Project Namahana takes you from Midwestern, glass-walled, corporate offices over the Pacific and across the island of Kaua‘i; from seemingly idyllic beaches and mountainous inland jungles to the face of Mount Namahana; all the while, exploring the question of how corporate executives could be responsible for evil things without, presumably, being evil themselves.

This suspenseful page-turner follows two men unified by a string of disappearances and deaths, as they search for answers—and salvation—in the jungles of Kaua‘i. Together, they must navigate the overlapping and complicated lines between a close-knit community and the hated, but economically-necessary corporate farms—and the decades old secrets that bind them.

Delving into the urgent issues of wartime trauma and the long arm of historical injustice, Project Namahana portrays the complex lives of the people who live in Kaua‘i, Hawaiian life that is worlds away from the all-inclusive resorts or lei ceremonies that tourists see.