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From a hospital bed a dying man unfolds the tale of an arduous life on the fringes of a Hawai'i sugar plantation in the 1920s. There Kim Sung Wha -- laborer, patriot, revolutionary, aviator -- envisioned building an airplane from ricepaper, bamboo,…

An elderly Japanese woman in Ontario investigates the murder of a married woman, also Japanese, who was having an affair with a white man. Part mystery, part story of the Japanese in Canada. A first novel.

Sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, always compelling, this extraordinary first novel chronicles the women of the Wong family from frontier railroad camps to modern-day Vancouver. As past sins and inborn strengths are passed on from mother to…

Emi-Lou struggles to come of age in her middle school years in Hawaii.

What happens when a slick city magazine and a literary journal join forces? This book, published by one of Hawai'i's foremost literary journals, features stories from the HONOLULU Magazine Fiction Contest. For the last 16 years, HONOLULU Magazine has…

In World War II, two spirited widows obtain the release of a California horticulturist from an internment camp for Japanese-Americans in the hope that he will turn their barren land in Massachusetts into a farm. The man, a widower himself, becomes a…

"In 1992 the U.S. media was treated to "conflict" between blacks and Asians during the Los Angeles uprising. The event crystallized white-supremacist stereotypes of blacks as the "problem" minority and Asians as the "model."".

A Chinese-American girl's return home from university. As she takes up residence at the back of the family laundry in New York, Ruby Lee realizes her college education has changed her perception. Some things which she disliked, she now likes, and…

This anthology of fiction, essays, poetry, and photography explores the transformative experiences that lead individuals to declare new forms of belonging in North America. The contributors reveal multiple ways of "feeling at home".

"Adele 'Addie' Maine is returning to Dire, a Wyoming coal-mining town, forty years after the deadly events that nearly took her life and drove her away without a word to her husband. Years earlier: headed West to stay with her brother Tommy, a young…