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Leaving Yesler

Bobby, a sensitive seventeen-year-old living in the projects of Seattle in 1968, copes with his mother's death from cancer and his brother's death in Vietnam, and tries to determine his own identity in the midst of many challenges.

Dark Blue Suit and other stories

Thirteen interwoven stories tracing the experience of Filipino immigrants in the U.S. from the 1920s onward. The stories are narrated by Buddy, a second generation Filipino-American from Seattle.

Cebu

Upon returning to Cebu for his mother's funeral, Ben Lucero, a Filipino American priest, must reexamine his ideas of home and religion.

The Fish of Our Fathers

The oldest tohunga in the village directs the building of a mighty war canoe.

New Clothes for New Year's Day

A young Korean girl describes the new clothes that she will be wearing to celebrate the new year.

The Unquiet Nisei: An Oral History of the Life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey

The Unquiet Nisei draws on a collection of oral histories conducted by the author to relate the life story of Sue Kunitomi Embrey, a seminal Japanese-American activist. Diana Meyers Bahr traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section…