![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I was nervous about what wine to order,” Kaui told me. He also offered to meet her in Hawaii that coming weekend. But, in chatting with Kaui by phone last week, she told me he’d emailed her sometime in 2008 to let her know he’d decided to direct it himself. The Descendants was optioned by Alexander Payne, the director of the unexpected hit, “ Sideways.” Originally, Payne had not planned to direct the film. The theme of our panel was fractured families (under the title “ Tales of Ruin and Renewal, even Triumph!“) I had just come out with my book on the Mondavis, and the panel also included Rich Cohen, who wrote the 2006 book on his family, Sweet and Low. ![]() I first met Kaui when I moderated a panel at Book Group Expo in San Jose. The New York Times called it “refreshingly wry.”Īround the time her book came out, Kaui was working out of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and writing a hilarious blog called “ How to Party with an Infant.” (Check out her excruciatingly funny post on bikini waxing, if you dare!) Her collection of short stories, House of Thieves, is stunning, particularly the title story. A dark comedy about a dysfunctional family, it was first published in 2007 to critical acclaim. Novelist Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of "The Descendants" ![]()
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