"In diversity, there is beauty and there is strength." Welcome back dear readers, I recently came across this sublime work by Tonga Victoria and totally enjoyed reading it. Being a supreme sightseer, I myself enjoy coming across with new cultural aspects and I was really delighted to read about a totally new culture and it's story.

This trilogy is the birth of what I’d like to call Pasifika Futurism. The great history of the way finding people of the South Pacific, is seamlessly reincarnated through Sam Kelly and her inheritance. She embodies the “Hyphen American” experience with her newfound lineage and her very American ways.

Sometimes life bombards you with your responsibilities, tasks, family commitments all at once, and you have to put reading on pause lol. After a few weeks of juggling life, I’ve been able to press play on the things I enjoy the most and devour a few books.

Hyphen American is the debut novel from author Tonga Victoria. It is a coming of age story with a multitude of layers that sees Polynesian culture, genealogy and family, entwined in the underbelly of secret organizations, capitalism and espionage.