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.
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.
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…