Product Description
Scarce novel of the Japanese-American immigrant experience, one of the first books in English by a Japanese-American author on the Japanese immigrant experience in America, preceding Okada's No-No Boy by some six years.
Beginning with a young couple's decision to leave stifling Japan for Hawaii, a place of opportunity, the novel follows the husband's struggles in the cane fields & a poor immigrant neighborhood to eventual property-ownership & success, family drama, and the unpleasant choices forced by internment during World War Two.
Cheung/Yogi, Asian American Literature 1090.
Size: Octavo
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