John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
In her "hilarious and heartbreaking" debut novel ("Library Journal"), Lois-Ann Yamanaka introduces the world to Lovey Nariyoshi, who comes of age in a working-class Japanese American family living in Hilo, Hawaii. Lovey longs to live in a "haole" (white) neighborhood and have "straight blond hair and long Miss America legs".
From the award-winning author of the compelling novel "A Room of My Own" comes a heart-wrenching story of two women and their rediscovery of a childhood friendship. Laced with soul-touching humor, "All the Way Home" is a moving portrayal of the vital importance of family and the bitter consequences of prejudice. (July)
"There is no writer that dives deeper (or more bravely) into the chasm that is the human heart. [David Mura's] first novel is a tour de force: luminously written and by turns crafty, tough, wise, and joyful."-Junot DA-az Ben Ohara is the sole surviving member his family. A troubled and brilliant astrophysicist, Ben's younger brother has ...
Spencer Fuji, a second-generation Japanese American, returns to his home on the island of Maui to visit his mother, who lives on 'Japanese row.' Having worked all their lives on a sugarcane plantation, and because the hard labor was so consuming, she and Spencer's father never assimilated to American society. Two wrenching events from childhood ...
In this, her first novel, author Shigekuni alternates the honest voices of four Japanese American women from four different generations who share a large house in San Francisco. United by the obligations of family, tradition, and love, each of the characters contributes to the family portrait.
In Go!, Holly Uyemoto speaks for an entire generation of young Americans who have become distant from their roots but yearn for understanding, inclusion, and a place at the table. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, the novel traces a young Japanese-American woman's struggle to understand herself and her family.
The American Family Album series tells the often heroic stories of American immigrant groups, largely through their own words and pictures. Like any family album, the pages contain period photographs, memorabilia, selections from diaries, letters, memoirs, and newspapers. Each book is a pictorial and written record of the country left behind, the ...
In studying first- and second-generation Japanese Americans in Seattle, the author illuminates a key area in the understanding of how immigrants consciously and unconsciously move from their culture or origin to the culture of America.
Mac "Suitcase" Sefton, a scout for the New York Yankees, discovers the next phenom pitcher--"Jerry Yamada--"however the pitcher is locked in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II and in his work to get Yamada freed Sefton has a profound outlook on life and is forced to address issues of personal integrity, racism, internment and ...
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