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West O‘ahu Native Jason Quinn Shares Insight About Local Drug War In Novel
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After he returned to O‘ahu with his wife and son, Quinn’s career continued to blossom. He appeared in Marvel’s Inhumans, Mag-
num P.I., Hawai‘i Five-0 and NCIS: Hawai‘i, and starred in the movie Waikīkī.
the voices of people from (his) dark past — good peo- ple caught in cycles,” and he began to write what those voices were saying. This became the impetus for Con-
crete Rainbow.
Focusing on Byron, an an-
his now 15-year-old son. While the story is fiction, it is based on the real — and raw — recollections from Quinn’s childhood, along with accounts from “uncles of old friends,” he says. In fact, the real-life “Byron” recently read the book after serving a
tunate relative or friend who got caught up in this now-al- most-forgotten time in our re- cent history.”
Yet, despite Quinn’s “beau- tiful life,” as he describes it, he “became haunted with
gry biracial 15-year-old poet, and Kimo, a Native Hawai- ian felon who is part crime boss and part philosopher, Concrete Rainbow reveals the hidden horrors of drugs and crime in Honolulu and on the West side during the early 1990s.
Quinn’s talents are show- cased through his narration of the audiobook, which also includes performances by Grammy-nominated singer Yoza Allen and renowned lo- cal artists. The overall effect lets listeners immerse them- selves in the story.
“Underneath, it is a medita- tive study of human behavior, the nuances of cultural iden- tity and the effects of trauma and abuse on children in a callous society,” Quinn states, mentioning he also felt com- pelled to write the novel for
15-year prison sentence. Local readers have appre- ciated the precise accuracy of places portrayed in the story — down to the bushes — and some have mentioned to Quinn that they attained “a sense of understanding, clo- sure and even the beginnings of forgiveness for an unfor-
Concrete Rainbow can be purchased online. Quinn will hold a public reading from 3 to 6 p.m. on March 25 at BoxJelly in Ward Centre.
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