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Author |
: Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher |
: Dell |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2008-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780440241553 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0440241553 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gasa-Gasa Girl by : Naomi Hirahara
Invited to New York by his estranged daughter, Mari, seventy-something Japanese gardener Mas Arai discovers that Mari has taken off, leaving Mas alone with his new son-in-law Lloyd, who is planning to open a Japanese garden, only to find himself caught up in murder when Lloyd's boss is found dead and Mari is arrested for the crime. Reprint.
Author |
: Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher |
: Delta |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2005-03-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780440335320 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0440335329 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gasa-Gasa Girl by : Naomi Hirahara
From the time she was a child, Mas Arai’s daughter, Mari, was completely gasa-gasa–never sitting still, always on the go, getting into everything. And Mas, busy tending lawns, gambling, and struggling to put his Hiroshima past behind him, never had much time for the family he was trying to support. For years now, his resentful daughter has lived a continent away in New York City, and had a life he knew little about. But an anxious phone call from Mari asking for his help plunges the usually obstinate Mas into a series of startling situations from maneuvering in an unfamiliar city to making nice with his tall, blond son-in-law, Lloyd, to taking care of a sickly child…to finding a dead body in the rubble of a former koi pond. The victim was Kazzy Ouchi, a half-Japanese millionaire who also happened to be Mari and Lloyd’s boss. Stumbling onto the scene, Mas sees more amiss than the detectives do, but his instinct is to keep his mouth shut. Only when the case threatens his daughter and her family does Mas take action: patiently, stubbornly tugging at the end of a tangled, dangerous mystery. And as he does, he begins to lay bare a tragic secret on the dark side of an American dream.… Both a riveting mystery and a powerful story of passionate relationships across a cultural divide, Gasa-Gasa Girl is a tale told with heart and wisdom: an unforgettable portrait of fathers, daughters, and other strangers.
Author |
: Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1607813432 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781607813439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp by : Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey
This creative memoir tells a coming of age story in a WWII Japanese-American internment camp
Author |
: Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher |
: Delta |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2006-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780440335894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0440335892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Snakeskin Shamisen by : Naomi Hirahara
From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara’s acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction’s most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500,000 win–from a novelty slot machine!–he’s torn between admiration and derision. But the stakes are quickly raised when the winner, a friend of Mas’s pal G. I. Hasuike, is found stabbed to death just days later. The last thing Mas wants to do is stick his nose in someone else’s business, but at G.I.’s prodding he reluctantly agrees to follow the trail of a battered snakeskin shamisen (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of the crime…and suddenly finds himself caught up in a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A.–a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
Author |
: Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher |
: Dell |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2008-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780440241546 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0440241545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Summer of the Big Bachi by : Naomi Hirahara
In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own life has gone to seed. His wife is dead. And his livelihood is falling into the hands of the men he once hired by the day. For Mas, a life of sin is catching up to him. And now bachi—the spirit of retribution—is knocking on his door. It begins when a stranger comes around, asking questions about a nurseryman who once lived in Hiroshima, a man known as Joji Haneda. By the end of the summer, Joji will be dead and Mas’s own life will be in danger. For while Mas was building a life on the edge of the American dream, he has kept powerful secrets: about three friends long ago, about two lives entwined, and about what really happened when the bomb fell on Hiroshima in August 1945. A spellbinding mystery played out from war-torn Japan to the rich tidewaters of L.A.’s multicultural landscape, this stunning debut novel weaves a powerful tale of family, loyalty, and the price of both survival and forgiveness.
Author |
: Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2014-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101609453 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101609451 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Murder on Bamboo Lane by : Naomi Hirahara
From the award-winning author of the Japantown Mysteries, trouble awaits rookie LAPD Officer Ellie Rush as she patrols the mean streets of Los Angeles on her bicycle… Bike cop Ellie Rush dreams of becoming a homicide detective, but it’s still a shock when the first dead body she encounters on the job is that of a former college classmate. At the behest of her Aunt Cheryl, the highest-ranking Asian-American officer in the LAPD (a source of pride for Ellie’s grandmother, but annoyance to her mom), Ellie becomes tangled in the investigation of the coed’s murder—with equal parts help and hindrance from her nosy best friend, her over-involved ex-boyfriend, a smoldering detective, and seemingly everyone else in her extended family…only to uncover secrets that a killer may go to any lengths to ensure stay hidden.
Author |
: Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher |
: Delacorte Press |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2008-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375848810 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375848819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis 1001 Cranes by : Naomi Hirahara
WHEN 12-YEAR-OLD ANGELA Kato arrives in L.A., the last thing she wants to do is spend the entire summer with her grandparents. But in the Kato family, one is never permitted to complain. Grandma Michi and Aunt Janet put Angela to work in their flower shop, folding origami and creating 1001 crane displays for newlyweds. At first, Angela learns the trade begrudgingly. But when her folding skills improve and her relationships with family and friends grow, Angela is able to cope with her troubles, especially her parents’ impending divorce.
Author |
: Naomi Hirahara |
Publisher |
: Prospect Park Books |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2013-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781938849039 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1938849035 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strawberry Yellow by : Naomi Hirahara
Mas Arai returns for his fifth mystery by getting entangled in a family reunion murder in California's strawberry fields.
Author |
: Heather Hathaway |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190098315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190098317 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis That Damned Fence by : Heather Hathaway
Pt. 1. Topaz, a literary hotbed -- After the bombs: the experience of Toyo Suyemoto -- Writing as resistance in Topaz: TREK and All Aboard -- Toshio Mori: a literary life derailed -- Miné Okubo: an aesthetic life launched -- Pt. 2. Writing elsewhere -- The Pulse of Amache/Granada -- Dispatches from tumultuous Tule Lake -- Internment novels: Toshio Mori's the Brothers Murata and Hiroshi Nakamura's treadmill -- Jerome's magnet -- Humiliation and hope in Rohwer's the Pen.
Author |
: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0618216200 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780618216208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Farewell to Manzanar by : Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.