Going Home

Going Home is the story of a Japanese-American who was born on Kauai and returns to the island to attend his mother’s funeral.

Wilson Tanaka is engaged in developing a non-invasive heart device (that has not been working properly) and is also is in the process of being divorced by his wife of ten years, a Silicon Valley corporate executive.

On Kauai Wilson meets an Irish-American pediatrician. He later runs into her at the mainland hospital, where his device is being tested. Difficulties with the device persist. Just as it is about to be tested again Wilson is called back to Kauai, because of his father’s illness, leaving his pediatrician friend to stand by her patient alone. Read how Wilson resolves this impasse and reaches a decision about how his life will evolve.

About the author:

Carl Heintze is a veteran newspaper reporter with 22 years experience on the San Jose, California, Mercury, and News and 17 years as a columnist for the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers. He also is the author of numerous books, both fiction and non-fiction and currently working on a book about his father, a civil engineer, to be called Bridges.

Carl has been an annual commuter to Kauai, Hawaii, since 1975 and the island remains one of his favorite places. Going Home is the result of one of those visits. On his way back to the mainland Carl sat next to a Japanese-American who had just attended his mother’s funeral. The result: first a prize winning short story and then this novel.