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- catalog abstract "A Japanese-American defies his parents and marries a white woman in this tale of how one family's labor was all the heavier for self-imposed cultural rules. The setting is a workers' camp on a sugar cane plantation in Hawaii. A first novel. The death of an older brother haunts Spencer in this novel about a Japanese American family in Hawaii. When Spencer Fujii's grandparents arrived in Hawaii at the turn of the century, they brought Japanese customs with them. Five decades later, those traditional expectations still shape the lives of the Fujii family. Spencer, the child of first generation Japanese-American (Nisei) sugarcane plantation workers, is the middle son of this exquisite first novel. He is haunted by the sacrifice of Taizo, not only Spencer's big brother but his hero, who kept the tradition all too faithfully. While the Japanese traditions of responsibility, acceptance, and sacrifice form the structural backbone of this remarkable novel, it is the delicate evocation of Spencer's family life, his childhood days with the much-loved Taizo, and the beauty of his final communion with his mother that displays Deborah Iida's enormous talent.".
- catalog contributor b9050642.
- catalog coverage "Hawaii Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "A Japanese-American defies his parents and marries a white woman in this tale of how one family's labor was all the heavier for self-imposed cultural rules. The setting is a workers' camp on a sugar cane plantation in Hawaii. A first novel. The death of an older brother haunts Spencer in this novel about a Japanese American family in Hawaii. When Spencer Fujii's grandparents arrived in Hawaii at the turn of the century, they brought Japanese customs with them. Five decades later, those traditional expectations still shape the lives of the Fujii family. Spencer, the child of first generation Japanese-American (Nisei) sugarcane plantation workers, is the middle son of this exquisite first novel. He is haunted by the sacrifice of Taizo, not only Spencer's big brother but his hero, who kept the tradition all too faithfully. While the Japanese traditions of responsibility, acceptance, and sacrifice form the structural backbone of this remarkable novel, it is the delicate evocation of Spencer's family life, his childhood days with the much-loved Taizo, and the beauty of his final communion with his mother that displays Deborah Iida's enormous talent.".
- catalog extent "228 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Middle son.".
- catalog identifier "1565121198".
- catalog isFormatOf "Middle son.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,".
- catalog relation "Middle son.".
- catalog spatial "Hawaii Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Hawaii".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Families Hawaii Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Japanese American families Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Japanese American families Hawaii Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Japanese Americans Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Japanese Americans Hawaii Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3559.I33 M53 1996".
- catalog title "Middle son : a novel / by Deborah Iida.".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcgft".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "text".