Fantaseas

Set in Hawaii in 1949 during a shipping strike that crippled the islands, FANTASEAS finds 13-year-old Cassie Cooperwaite a lone voice of reason during the turmoil of the strike. The local economy and one Navy family in Honolulu fight the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) hearings to an uncompromising end. The family and the islands are heading toward decay. Based on a real-life strike and unfortunately real-life hearings, FANTASEAS is a long-awaited first novel by Sally...
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Set in Hawaii in 1949 during a shipping strike that crippled the islands, FANTASEAS finds 13-year-old Cassie Cooperwaite a lone voice of reason during the turmoil of the strike. The local economy and one Navy family in Honolulu fight the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) hearings to an uncompromising end. The family and the islands are heading toward decay. Based on a real-life strike and unfortunately real-life hearings, FANTASEAS is a long-awaited first novel by Sally Corboy Kurtzman. Hawaii has long been a setting for tumultuous stores of sailors and maidens. This is none of that. This is a real story of the Paradise of the Pacific and how statehood was denied for so many years for so many reasons.