Cookie Lily
Subtitle: stories / Mary Troy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Women -- Hawaii -- Fiction; Hawaii -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In the title story, Lily struggles to escape the depressed fatalism of her mother, to come to terms with the fact that she's never had a relationship with her father, and to exorcise the demons of her loveless relationship with the father of her baby. Though she is stymied at every turn, Lily finds a sense of self-worth and the courage to take on the challenges of single motherhood." "In "Beach Dogs," Kiki sets out to scam Mummers, her mother, who is a mercenary manipulator, by using a homeless person as a tool. At the end of this tale of moral corruption, the daughter is surprised to discover a speck of empathy for her feckless mother as well as for her white-collar criminal father." "In "Luau," Syd Yasuda, a young college woman of Japanese ancestry, is betrayed by Fuzzy, her unmotivated Hawaiian boyfriend, in the aftermath of setting up a wedding Iuau on a North Shore beach."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Luau; title: The most beautiful girl in the world; title: Island entertainment; title: Cookie Lily; title: Group home; title: Happy birthday Gerald Meatloaf; title: Beach dogs; title: Falling in love; title: Fantasy; title: Talk story.