Wuz Hud Fo'read but dakine....

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	• Father of the Four Passages: A Novel Lois-Ann Yamanaka Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
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Keep da faith, Sista!

On a recent afternoon my wife lost her purse in the KTA parking lot. Next day lunch time "Loke" calls to let me know she found the purse in a trash can. I pick it up in a Wainaku walk up parking lot from a young man with no shirt & tatoos who I gave a reward to pass on to the young lady that called. All the purse contents had been removed and neatly put back in the wrong order. Cash gone. Credit card had been used unsuccessfully at a gas station. But, thanks for the return.

Whats the point? I don't know exactly, but I got a glimpse into a very different world from my own. Like Sonia Kurisu who struggles so desperately with challenges most of us don't even want to think about, but author Yamanaka delivers it to us raw to deal with. I was judgemental, disgusted, angry, confused, and eventually bored as Sonia's massive blunders unfolded. And her "father", hoo boy.

Indeed, if the only purpose of "Father of the Four Passages" was to make the reader hate a loser drug addict abusive failure of a human being, I would not waste my or your time writing this. But, the story had, well, an ending...

Only those of us lucky enough to hit a personal rock bottom and survive will probably understand Sonia's redemption. Author Yamanaka has somehow conveyed this feeling of revelation to me with mere words on paper. The light! For this I give her book my highest rating. Thank you.

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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 of oceans versus Las Vegas. At first, I sat there reading it, racked by the explicit violence, hatred, and sadness, but soon I became numbed to the beauty of Hawaii and the heartache of Sonia Kurisu. I've never read another work by Yamanaka, but after reading this book, I believe I'll go look around for more. Definately try this book.

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Wuz Hud Fo'read but dakine....

I no caya wot da buggah wit da highmakamaka words said, like anyting else yo'readem yo'ownself & decide. So wot if somebody wen talkstink about dis book.

Eh titamoke, dis was hud fo'read. At first. Anden lilobit by lilobit, I wen gettum' o'maybe not but da point is I wen buy da book & readem'. I tink peoples got all huhu ova dis book cause was all intense wired kine mana'o hah. Faka tree(3) misscarriages I would be nuts too and az witout da drugs. Add drugs, auwe big time pilikia. Frikas trute hurt yeah.

Peoples prolly piss off at TitaLoisAnn; da way peoples stay piss off at me fo'writing all hammajang la dis as not propa English. And... Yeah and my English teachas stay all doing 360's in dey grave but as okay cause dey wen teach me/us and I/we wen learn even do no look like cause us no sked make our own. LOL

Hele on, hana hou write somme moe!

KULIA

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Abold new novel about the redemptive power of love

Hailed by Jamie James in The Atlantic Monthly as "one of the most original voices on the literary scene," Lois-Ann Yamanaka is back with a novel about family and forgiveness. Set in Hawaii and Las Vegas, Father of the Four Passages tells the story of Sonia Kurisu, a street-wise young mother, who struggles to raise her child, Sonny Boy, as she seeks to come to terms with the three children she aborted. In sequences alternating between the past and the present, we learn of Sonia's childhood-her abandonment by her father and her mother; her contentious relationship with her sister, Celeste; her string of bad lovers; her problems with drugs and alcohol-and of her wish to reconcile with her father and make something of her life by being a good parent to her son, who has begun to show signs of developmental problems. A haunting novel about fathers, forgiveness, spirituality, and solace, Father of the Four Passages is Yamanaka's most ambitious work to date.

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