I read Hula a few years ago, and I was looking around on Amazon to see if Shea had written anything else. Hula was such a great read that I want more from this twisted, talented author. Shea captures the story in small moments rather than lengthy, descriptive prose. The characters, especially the father (an incredibly disturbed man suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) are sometimes difficult to understand, because Shea leaves enough to the imagination to make you wonder...this is a great book for people who do not need their literature spoon-fed to them.

Lisa Shea's Hula is one of the finest miniature novels I've read. In fact, it's the only book that I ever began re-reading seconds after I turned over the last page.

Shea's prose is spare and evocative; her story is both beautiful and frightening. I've never read a novel before that seemed so much like a poem. Not because the language was "poetic," but because the book is so beautifully condensed, and it moves from one enigmatic and startling image to the next.

I keep buying copies of this book, and I keep giving them to friends.

I read this book in one sitting. She captures the smells, feeling, fears of young girls in the hot summer. Read it