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Da Jesus Book: When Pidgin Meets Scripture

A friend gave me Da Jesus Book when I lived in Maui – the entire New Testament translated into Hawaiian Pidgin – and I didn’t know whether to laugh or feel vaguely blasphemous for laughing. “In da beginning wen get notting, God wen make da sky an da earth” is how it starts, and suddenly

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The Phone Calls We Choose, or Choose Not, to Make

Zelda

What words do you wish you had spoken to someone before it was too late?Now that’s a premise I can get behind. Laura Imai Messina’s The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World asks readers to contemplate exactly that question as we follow Yui, a young woman whose life is shattered by loss. After

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