Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

Japanese American families -- Fiction. Japanese Americans -- Fiction. Hawaii -- Fiction.

A tale of growing up Japanese-American in Hawaii. The narrator is Lovey Nariyoshi, a girl from a poor family who dreams of becoming white. In the course of everyday events, she describes a society where she can find no reflection of her own culture, a state of affairs which gives her an inferiority complex. A look at the reality behind the hype of multiculturalism.

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann

Farrar Straus Giroux

1996

PS3575 .A434 W55

2003.500.3922