Talking to the Dead - Paperback

by Sylvia Watanabe (Author)

An exciting new Asian-American writing talent takes her place among today's most acclaimed literary voices with this honest and moving collection of interrelated stories. The stories, spoken in a true host of voices, are savvy guides to a world at once ancient and modern and covering a range of themes from betrayal to madness to racism to failed beliefs.

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By an 0. Henry Award-winning young writer, these interrelated stories paint a moving, many-faceted portrait of a Hawaiian village, where ancient traditions and modern values meet in a magical mix of the marvelous and the real.