A Memoir of Hawai'i Poetry and prose by this long-neglected Filipino American writer. Sia Figiel is a major literary voice ushering the vastness of Pacific Rim literatures into the millennium. The first work by a Samoan woman to be published in the United States. Figiel takes on Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman and tells us what it was really like to grow up in Samoa.
East Goes West deserves rediscovery.
Linmark nails the excitement and terror of being young with a rare and moving accuracy. Sia Figiel is a major literary voice ushering the vastness of Pacific Rim literatures into the millennium. The first work by a Samoan woman to be published in the United States. Figiel takes on Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman and tells us what it was really like to grow up in Samoa. A Memoir of Hawai'i Poetry and prose by this long-neglected Filipino American writer.