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02 Mar / Talking to the Dead by Sylvia Watanabe [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

Talking to the DeadA 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

By Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hawaiian, Japanese American, Repost, Short Stories Tags > Anthology/Collection, BookDragon, Cultural exploration, Family, Friendship, Identity, Sylvia Watanabe, Talking to the Dead, What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature
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