{"product_id":"blood-work-and-other-stories","title":"Blood Work and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat we carry. What we inherit. What we leave behind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeventeen stories of connection and survival in a place caught between what’s sacred and what’s sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOn the Windward side of Oʻahu, change moves fast—developers buy up neighborhoods, locals move away, and families struggle to hold on to what remains. Beneath each loss, however, lie quiet acts of resilience that refuse to be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAgainst a backdrop of economic hardship, housing instability, cultural transition, and environmental decline, Donald A. Carreira Ching offers readers a deeply intimate portrait of contemporary Hawai‘i. His characters live in a Hawai‘i far removed from tourist postcards, navigating sorrow, displacement, and the weight of generational trauma. Yet even in these quiet, overlooked corners, they hold fast to the connections that root them in place and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWith grace and grit, Carreira Ching renders Hawai‘i as few others have, bearing witness to what’s being lost while illuminating what endures: love, memory, and the deep connections between people and place. This collection affirms him as a vital voice in contemporary American fiction and a key contributor to the evolving canon of Hawai‘i literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWritten by \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDonald Carreira Ching\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover, 184 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bamboo Ridge Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54774229565715,"sku":"wnh1790034728149","price":15.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/4029\/7235\/files\/blood-work-and-other-stories_1.jpg?v=1790034733","url":"https:\/\/tentcamping.shop\/products\/blood-work-and-other-stories","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}