Dubbed "one of the most original voices on the American literary scene" by Jamie James in the Atlantic Monthly, Lois-Ann Yamanaka explores what it means to grow up Asian American in Hawaii, looking behind the usual tourist-brochure image of those islands. She is the author of such hard-hitting, humorous, insightful, and probing fictional works as the trilogy including Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Blu's Hanging, and Harry's Head, as well as stand-alone novels such as the young adult title, Name Me Nobody, and Father of the Four Passages. "Yamanaka's novels possess a unique and riotous energy as they conjure Hawaii's spiky cultural brew that roils within the green embrace of a gorgeous and vulnerable land," wrote Booklist's Donna Seaman. Focusing on young, working-class Japanese Americans from Hawaii who struggle with such typical issues of adolescence as sexual development and peer acceptance while coming to terms with...