Memory to Magnificence The Epic Imagination of Garrett Hongo’s Lost Home TEOW LIM GOH

Garrett Hongo was born in Volcano, a village next to the crater of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii, in 1951, a fourth-generation Japanese American whose ancestors migrated to the islands as shopkeepers and cane cutters. When he was eight months old, his parents lost his grandfather’s general store and moved to Kahuku, a sugar plantation town in northeast Oahu, where his mother’s family lived. At the age of six, he moved again with his family to Gardena, a working-class Japanese American suburb of Los Angeles; with the collapse of the sugar economy in Hawaii, his parents could not find opportunities in the islands.

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