Lucky Come Hawaii (The Sixties in America)
At a glance:
- Author: Jon Shirota
- First Published: 1965
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, War fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Twentieth century, 1940’s, World War II, Ethnic groups, Immigration or emigration, War, Acculturation, Minorities, Japan or Japanese people, Japanese Americans, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
The Work
Lucky Come Hawaii is the story of Kama Gusada, a lovable, aging drunkard and pig farmer born in the United States but raised an Okinawan to whom the news of Japanese planes attacking Pearl Harbor is almost too good to be true. Convinced that the Japanese will easily overrun the island and defeat the Americans, Kama brews sake and paints the Rising Sun (the Japanese flag) on the roof of his home to welcome the triumphant arrival of the Japanese army. For his children, however, the incursion of the Buddhaheads (Japanese) into their lives is a disaster, foreboding...
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