"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.