Kapoho
Subtitle: memoir of a modern Pompeii
By: Frances H. Kakugawa
Publisher: Watermark Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Honolulu, HI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781935690160
Subjects: Japanese Americans; Biography; Women authors; History; Volcanic eruptions; Social conditions; Manners and customs
Description: "Frances H. Kakugawa weaves a coming-of-age memoir of life in a Hawaiian plantation village - now buried beneath a blanket of lava"--From publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: The enemy wore my face; title: Eh! You tink you haole?; title: The kindergarten dropout of Kapoho; title: Speaker of the house; title: The emperor's kidnapped daughter; title: Twenty-seven minus nine; title: You are going to hell; title: The chisel : a Kapoho story; title: It was once upon a time; title: Taxi money; title: Ice fishing; title: A one-chopstick marriage; title: Mrs. Honda's beautiful daughter; title: Akira's flashlight : a Kapoho story; title: Once there was a Kapoho; title: A postscript.