Jack Truesdale

Mar 14, 2024 | fluxhawaii.com | Jack Truesdale |Eunica Escalante

Images by John HookIf the sparse volume of bookstores indicates these days, then there are countless other things people in Hawai‘i might prefer to spend their money on than books. O‘ahu has Barnes and Noble, Native Books, Da Shop, Bookends. “But other than that, there’s nowhere to get new books,” Travis Sasaki said on a recent winter morning inside of Bās Bookshop, the two-year-old store specializing in niche art and design titles that he started with Aly Ishikuni, who was beside him.