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lesserjoke 's review for:
Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell
DNF at 25%. I generally like Sarah Vowell's brand of bringing history alive by contextualizing the research that she did instead of just reporting her findings, but here I found it made this book feel like an outsider's appropriation of Hawaiian history. It doesn't help that her version of that history revolves heavily around Christian missionaries, with short shrift given to the native people and their culture. I'm still interested in Hawaii, but I don't think Vowell is the right guide for me.