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01 Mar / Hilo Rains by Juliet S. Kono [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
A lyrical first collection of poems that draws on such topics as Kono’s native Hawai’i, the legacy of Asian immigrant sugar cane plantation laborers, the Japanese internment crisis, and family obligations.
Review: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997
Readers: Adult
Published: 1988
By Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Hawaiian, Japanese American, Poetry, RepostTags > BookDragon, Cultural exploration, Family, Hilo Rain, Historical, Identity, Japanese American imprisonment during WWII, Juliet S. Kono, What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature
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Brown Bag Biography: Bamboo Addition Oral Portrayal Project Panel
April 21, 12:00pm - 1:15pmMānoa Campus, Zoom
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Anshu: Dark Sorrow is Juliet S. Kono’s first novel. Her previous publications include two books of poetry, Hilo Rains and Tsunami Years; a collaborative work of linked poems with three other poets, No Choice but to Follow; a short story collection, Hoʻolulu Park and the Pepsodent Smile; and a children’s book, The Bravest ʻOpihi. The recipient of several awards, including the US/Japan Friendship Commission Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship, she has been anthologized widely, most recently in the Imagine What It’s Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology. In 2006, she won the Hawaiʻi Award for Literature.
Why did you decide to write Anshu?
My story began as a short story, but I found it too limiting because there was so much more I wanted to say about this not-so-very-likeable child—this girl, who like me, loved to play with fire—that I had to make the story longer. And longer. The initial thrust—I wanted to know what the ultimate encounter with fire could be for someone like the main character, Hi-chan, who had been obsessed with playing with fire, and the different kinds of fires she would face as she grew older—fires of sex, anger, desire, passion, hate—ultimately real fires as in the firebombing an