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Haunted by unhappy memories related to his Japanese-American family's forced transplant to war-stricken Hawaii, Spencer Fujii returns as an adult to the side of his ailing mother and rediscovers his identity. Reprint.

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This restrained, elegiac first novel is at once a feat of imagination--a man's childhood recalled, written by a female novelist--and a fictionalized history of the Japanese-American community in Hawaii. The narrator, Spencer Fujii, grew up among the sugar cane cutters of Hawaii and lost his brother when the latter drowned at age 12. That tragedy forms the core for Spencer's reminiscences and his coming to terms with inevitable loss and sorrow--for his aged mother is dying as well. The dialogue is written in finely tuned patois and the novel explores the customs and personalities of a world that most of us will never experience directly.

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