SET IN A Hawai i making its way into the post-statehood era. The Red Wind is the story of four generations in the life of an Island family experiencing its share of joy, loss and triumph. It focuses on the family s patriarch, a canoe builder, to whom the Hawaiian canoe is a living being of majestic, artistic beauty. Starting out as a rootless boy with no family, Kenika McKay finds his life in Hawai i.This is the story of his spiritual odyssey set against the background of a changing Hawai i.