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Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
4.0

Missed the wry voice that I've loved in her previous books. This is a much more serious book about the questionable tactics used by both missionaries and the US government that led to the annexation of Hawaii.

There weren't any people who joined weird communes, so not a lot of jokes (fave chapter in Assassination Vacation is the one about the guy who joins the Oneidas and winds up being too nuts even for them). Kind of hard to come up with witticisms for a culture being trampled under imperialism.