Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Harcourt Brace, 1997 - Fiction - 277 pages

In her hilarious and heartbreaking debut novel (Library Journal), Lois-Ann Yamanaka introduces the world to Lovey Nariyoshi, who comes of age in a working-class Japanese American family living in Hilo, Hawaii. Lovey longs to live in a haole (white) neighborhood and have straight blond hair and long Miss America legs.

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User Review  - kyuuketsukirui - LibraryThing

Oh, I loved this so much. This is maybe my favorite type of fiction ever, short stories about being a kid/growing up, but not for kids. I like children's lit/YA okay (some books I really love), but I ...

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User Review  - hsollom - LibraryThing

Personal Response: More a collection of loose vignettes than a novel, the different styles are sometimes lyrical and sometimes realistic. Lovey’s attempts to establish an identity apart from herself ...

Contents

• Crazy Like a Dream: 41
• Oompah Loompah: 51
• Dominate and Recessid Jeans: 61

About the author

Lois-Ann Yamanaka is the author of Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers (FSG, 1996), Blu's Hanging (FSG, 1997), and Heads by Harry (FSG, 1999). Recipient of a 1998 Lannan Literary Award and the 1998 Asian American Literary Award, she lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers; Harvest American writing; Harvest Book
• Author: Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace, 1997
• ISBN: 0156004836, 9780156004831
• Length: 277 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General