02 Mar / Talking to the Dead by Sylvia Watanabe [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
A first collection of lyrical short stories, set in the Hawaiian Islands, about such diverse characters as a female Chinese Fred Astaire, a grandmother who makes quilts of stolen pieces of laundry, and a wild young woman longing to leave the islands any way she can.
The title story, “Talking to the Dead,” received the 1991 PEN/O. Henry Prize; the collection was a finalist for the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Award and won a PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award for fiction.
Review: “Asian American Titles,” What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature, Gale Research, 1997
Readers: Adult
Published: 1992