Objects are closer than they appear. Lee A. Jacobus tips his writer s side-view mirror to reflect intimate and unexpected views of life in paradise. A collection of fourteen short stories set in the islands of Hawaii, Hawaiian Tales: The Girl with Heavenly Eyes looks beyond the surface lives of tourists and retirees, natives and transplants, to the joys and mysteries within. By turns tender, amusing, and pleasantly unsettling but always intriguing these short stories plant us firmly in a magical tropical landscape.