Set during a time of transition, when plantation life was ending and World War II was looming large, Kona follows the course of an interracial family. Martha Luahin Bell and Winslow Wendall life together reflects the conflicts that come from a meeting of cultures and values. The story details the concessions and compromises that both make, as it traces the impact that the blending of cultures has on their children who, in the end, makes choices very different than those imagined by their parents. Kona reveals the pressures that changing social landscape exerted on all islanders as territorial days were ending and sets the drama against the timeless natural beauty of Hawaii.
