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Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers: A Novel

15 reviews
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Picador, 2006

a reflection on paper
Hmmm,here is an awkward but charming story of an awkward but charming adolescent girl growing up as a Japanese-American in "Haole" culture. I quite enjoyed this book although its not for everyone; say, people who don't have patience to read continuous pidgen dialogue. However, Yamanaka is one of my favorite authors, and I must review her first work here as it is fantastic in my baised ...

Heads By Harry

19 reviews
Lois-ann Yamanaka

Harper Perennial, 2000

To Laugh or To Cry?
Never have I read a book that was capable of making me laugh and cry so much in one sitting as Blu's Hanging. As one who reads much literature voraciously, Blu's Hanging gets my highest marks for accurate portayal of the crisis of being humyn. This book is not all rosy and joy, but instead a realistic journey of growing up poor in Hawai'i and the inherent challenges involved. Not for the weak ...

Conjunctions: 40, 40x40
Richard Powers, Can Xue, ...

Bard College, 2003

In celebration of Conjunctions' 40th issue, the journal has gathered together fiction, poetry, plays, and creative essays by some of its favorite contemporary writers. Featuring novels in progress from authors including Richard Powers, Howard Norman, Paul Auster, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka, as well as "Heli," a surreal novella by China's foremost fiction writer, Can Xue, in which a boy falls in love with a girl who lives entrapped in a glass cabinet ...

Name Me Nobody

17 reviews
Lois-ann Yamanaka

Hyperion Book CH, 2000

Call This Book Something! (and I don't mean give it a name)
At first, I was dreading that I would have a difficult time finsihing "Name Me Nobody" since the pidgin English greatly slowed my reading and I had to backtrack several times to clarify that I had read everything correctly. However, once I made it through a couple of chapters, I was able to adapt to the word flow and the book became much easier to read. Luckily, I didn't have any problem with ...

Sharing Secrets, 1993

Multicultural battered women's anthology of poems and stories.

Father of the Four Passages: A Novel

9 reviews
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Picador, 2002

Ohhhhhhhh!
I've never experienced such a work in my entire life. The use of fervent Christianity, symbolism, paranormal experiences, and emotional instability result resonate through my emotions. The surreal images were heartbreakingly beautiful when combined with the grittiness of seedy strip bars and junkies smacking up in filthy apartments. The experiences are intensified with the parallel surroundings ...

Behold the Many: A Novel

2 reviews
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Picador, 2007

(4.5) "Where is home when no one is home?"
In a melding of harsh reality and the world of the spirit, Behold the Many is a novel of love and loss that reaches beyond the grave, the brittle fingers of the dead clutching at the living. Only one sister of three survives her isolation in a TB hospital-orphanage in the secluded Kalihi Valley in Hawaii, three little girls sent away when they develop tuberculosis, one after another, banished so ...

Blu's Hanging

30 reviews
Lois-ann Yamanaka

Harper Perennial, 1998

"I know who the dreammaker is...."
BLU'S HANGING by Lois-Ann Yamanaka BLU'S HANGING by Lois-Ann Yamanaka is my introduction to the books by this Hawaiian native of Japanese descent. In this novel, Yamanaka takes us into the world of Ivah Ogata, the oldest child of a family that has just lost their mother, and a father who can barely feed and clothe them, let alone give them the love and attention that was given to them by their ...

Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre

9 reviews
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Bamboo Ridge Press, 1993

Close As You'll Get to the "Real" Hawaii in Fiction
Like the author, I grew up Japanese-American in 1970s Hawaii, largely in the world that Yamanaka portrays in her stunning literary debut, "Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre." When I first read this book, I felt shocked, offended, scandalized, and totally unprepared to deal with a book that mirrored so closely the world that I knew. That's because I, like everyone else I grew up with, ...

Heart's Language, The

3 reviews
Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Hyperion Book CH, 2005

THe Heart's Language
A VERY BEAUTIFUL BOOK, both illustrations and the story! While it does not mention Autism, and can actually cover a number of disabilities, the book touches your heart. It would be a wonderful book to read to small children,or have for older children to read to themselves. (As well as adults) The illustrations are LUSH and LOVELY, as is the message in the book.

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