Title: Talking to the dead and other stories /
Authors: Watanabe, Sylvia.
Publisher: Doubleday,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Hawaii Fiction.
Abstract: In this collection of interrelated stories are tales spoken in a true host of voices, savvy guide to a world at once ancient and modern, through the minefields of adolescence, betrayal, madness, racism, and found and failed beliefs, where the marvelous and the real hold hands.
Contents: Anchorage -- Eniko's garden -- The caves of Okinawa -- Certainty -- A summer waltz -- A spell of kona weather -- The ghost of Fred Astaire -- The bishop's wife -- Talking to the dead -- The prayer lady.