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nsfinch 's review for:
Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell
I really enjoyed this book. It added some necessary context to Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, which I read recently. This book covers the beginning of the American missionary settlement in Hawaii, before Lili'uokalani's birth, and includes some derogatory information about her family that she elided from her memoir, like her brother's alcoholism. I had the book and the audiobook at the same time, but the book doesn't have chapters, so it was a bit more challenging to do my usual trick of switching back and forth. Sarah Vowell narrates the audiobook, but includes a cast of well-known actors who read several excerpts from primary documents. Now I really want to read about pre-contact Hawaii, and about how the Polynesian people expanded all across the Pacific.