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Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Books in Order: 8 titles
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Snow Angel, Sand Angel
A celebration of home, family, and finding beauty in your heritage, beautifully illustrated by the artist behind Anti-Racist Baby. Claire has been surrounded by the deep blue waves of Hapuna Beach and the magnificent mountains of Hawai'i all her life...
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Behold the Many
Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in sp...
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Father of the Four Passages
From "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" (The Atlantic Monthly) comes the powerful tale of Sonia Kurisu, a young woman who grew up troubled in working-class Hawaii and struggles to raise her young son alone. Alternatin...
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Heads by Harry
You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours.� But above the shop, where the family liv...
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Name Me Nobody
Thirteen-year-old Emi-Lou--overweight, lonely, and alienated from her family--struggles to understand the romantic feelings that Von, her best girlfriend, develops for an older girl on their softball team. Reprint....
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Blu's Hanging
The much anticipated reprint of Yamanaka's "giddy, bawdy, and genuinely moving" (Kirkus Reviews) novel about a young girl's fierce love for her family on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'iIn the wake of their mother's death, the three Ogata children gro...
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Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
MOVE OVER HOLDEN CAULFIELD! In her debut novel, Lois-Ann Yamanaka introduces the world to Lovey Nariyoshi, who comes of age in a working-class Japanese American family in Hilo, Hawaii. Lovey longs to live in a "haole" (white) neighborhood and speak E...
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Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre
Poetry. Fiction. Asian American Studies. This is a work of fiction during which the characters interact in the form of poetic novellas. Born on the island of Molokai and presently living in Kahalu'u, Yamanaka's poems have appeared in such journals as...