The first book I read after just moving back to Hawaii is East Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul. This is a wonderful novel that takes place on the Hawaiian Island of Niihau.
This is historic fiction based on the little known event of a Japanese fighter pilot crash landing on Niihau on Dec. 7th 194, after attacking Pearl Harbor.

The Niihauans were completely unaware of the war, and this is a portrait of how this event changed their way of life and even had much farther reaching repercussions than anyone could have imagined.

Paul gives us a wonderful portrait of life on Niihau, a portrait of the land, its people, its isolation and also the religous conflicts, and rascism that was going on at the time.

It is beautifully written book that I thouroughly enjoyed reading.