This new abridged edition of Honolulu Stories is a bold rethinking of the original and puts its lens squarely on the modern fiction coming out of Hawai‘i today. These stories come together to create a freshly focused portrait of Honolulu in flux, grappling with the waves of change we currently face in the twenty-first century from the affects of war, economic dispossession, environmental degradation, and dislocation, and how we are trying to adapt, evolve, fight, and survive for what was, what is, and what could be.