Includes bibliographical references (p. [406]-412).
Contents:
"Pat and Pan" / Sui Sin Far -- "From Gee Sook to Beatty" from Sweet Bamboo : Saga of a Chinese American Family / Louise Leung Larson -- "Frontier home" from Sushi and Sourdough / Tooru J. Kanazawa -- "Through anger and love" / Toshio Mori -- "And the soul shall dance" / Wakako Yamauchi -- "Fourth grade ukus (1952)" / Marie Hara -- "Toussaint" from China Boy / Gus Lee -- "Transformation" from Talking to High Monks in the Snow : An Asian American Odyssey / Lydia Minatoya -- From Cebu / Peter Bacho -- "The monkeyman" / Zia Jaffrey -- Tragic transition : the internment of Japanese Americans (1942-1945) -- From Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston -- From In Search of Hiroshi / Gene Oishi -- From Quiet Odyssey : a Pioneer Korean Woman in America / Mary Paik Lee -- "Father cures a presidential fever" from Father and Glorious Descendant / Pardee Lowe -- "The taste of independence" from Fifth Chinese Daughter / Jade Snow Wong -- "Railroad standard time" / Frank Chin -- "Kubota" / Garrett Hongo -- From the Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan -- From Turning Japanese : Memoirs of a Sansei / David Mura -- "What means switch" / Gish Jen -- From the floating world / Cynthia Kadohata -- "Whatever happened to Harry?" / Susan Ito -- "The parrot's beak / Kartar Dhillon -- "Seventeen syllables" / Hisaye Yamamoto -- From Clay Walls / Kim Ronyoung -- From The Woman Warrior : Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From Homebase / Shawn Wong -- "Carnival queen" / Mavis Hara -- "Paint" / Darrell H.Y. Lum -- "Chang" / Sigrid Nunez -- "First Love" / R.A. Sasaki -- From The Journey / Indira Ganesan.
Summary:
"Stories of childhood, adolescence and coming of age in America, from the 1800s to the 1990s, by 32 Asian American writers"--Cover.
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