Blu’s Hanging
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Author: Yamanaka, Lois-Ann
Through the rich, multivocal pidgin of Hawai‘i, Lois-Ann Yamanaka offers an unvarnished look at a life where music, poverty and love share the same home. Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, 'Blu’s Hanging' shines with humour and expressiveness even as it shows the brutal toll of an adolescence haunted by loss. This edition includes an interview with Yamanaka about the controversies surrounding this novel, along with an afterword by Asian American scholar Erin Khuê Ninh.In the wake of their mother’s death, the three Ogata children grow up fast. As their Poppy withdraws into a grief-stricken stupor, eldest daughter Ivah is left taking care of her siblings: Maisie, her timid sister who hasn’t said a word since their loss; and Blu, her reckless brother whose childhood romance risks exposing him to new dangers. All that's holding the Ogatas together is 12-year-old Ivah's single-minded determination, but she must ultimately decide whether the future she wants for herself is on Moloka‘i or beyond its shores. Born in Hawai‘i and raised in Moloka‘i, Honolulu-based author Lois-Ann Yamanaka has won a Lannan Literary Award, an Asian American Literary Award and an American Book Award.
ISBN 9781935717010. Kaya Press. pb. 256 pages. 19.1 x 13.3 cm.
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Through the rich, multivocal pidgin of Hawai‘i, Lois-Ann Yamanaka offers an unvarnished look at a life where music, poverty and love share the same home. Originally published in 1997 and now back in print, 'Blu’s Hanging' shines with humour and expressiveness even as it shows the brutal toll of an adolescence haunted by loss. This edition includes an interview with Yamanaka about the controversies surrounding this novel, along with an afterword by Asian American scholar Erin Khuê Ninh.In the wake of their mother’s death, the three Ogata children grow up fast. As their Poppy withdraws into a grief-stricken stupor, eldest daughter Ivah is left taking care of her siblings: Maisie, her timid sister who hasn’t said a word since their loss; and Blu, her reckless brother whose childhood romance risks exposing him to new dangers. All that's holding the Ogatas together is 12-year-old Ivah's single-minded determination, but she must ultimately decide whether the future she wants for herself is on Moloka‘i or beyond its shores. Born in Hawai‘i and raised in Moloka‘i, Honolulu-based author Lois-Ann Yamanaka has won a Lannan Literary Award, an Asian American Literary Award and an American Book Award.
ISBN 9781935717010. Kaya Press. pb. 256 pages. 19.1 x 13.3 cm.
available