Carrie's review
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers: A Novel
by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Carrie's review
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers: A Novel by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Carrie's review
rating:
recommended for: teens; anyone traveling to Hawaii
Sweet coming of age tale of a third generation Japanese Hawaiian girl growing up in the 1970's. Lovey's father who grew up on the plantation is always scheming to make money - from rabbits to collecting feathers for leis - and Lovey thinks she wants nothing more than to have a nice white picket fence, nothing second hand and have a haole name. When her dad is injured in a hunting accident, Lovey finally understands the messages her dad has been quietly teaching her - about being proud of where you come from and sacrifice for those you love. Told through a series of vignettes and with a fantastic ear of pigin, I'll be looking out the car window at the corrugated roofs a little differently after reading this book.
