Who knew a kindergarten dropout could make it so far? Restless and headstrong, Frances Kakugawa was raised amid the anti-Japanese fervor of wartime Hawai'i.
Back then, she longed to leave her hardscrabble hometown in the shadow of Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, with its kerosene lamps and outhouses stocked with Sears catalogs for toilet paper.
As a child, Kakugawa pretended she was the long-lost daughter of the emperor who would reclaim her and restore her to her royal.
Legacy Isle Publishing The kindergarten dropout of kapoho, paperback/frances h. kakugawa
