Short Story Collections
A Small Obligation
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A Small Obligation and Other Stories of Hilo
Bamboo Ridge Press The short story collection A Small Obligation and Other Stories of Hilo is an account of growing up in a divided, yet doubly rich family, of two worlds, those of the author's Japanese mother and Portuguese father in Hilo, Hawaii. Author Susan Miho Nunes was lucky to be born in Hilo and to grow up in places like Kinau Lane in Piopio, Mauna Kea Street in Villa Franca, Laimana Street, and Halai Hill. Selection from the A Small Obligation: "Hilo Story" She was Japanese and he was Portuguese and they were introduced on the tennis court next to the fire station by the town mortician. Everyone said wasn't that funny. They didn't know that he had waited to meet her for three years ever since the day he saw her at the beach under a parasol. She was so fair. ("One pound powder," her friends called her.) They were married in March of 1941, nine months before Pearl Harbor. (Her mother took to bed the week before; her parents did not attend the wedding.) She wore a navy blue dress with a white collar. He wore a business suit. They're not smiling in their wedding photograph. |
Short Stories Published in Collections and Anthologies
"The Walking Lady" in Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts, No. 118, 2020.
"The Ebesu Girls," "Hilo Story," "Fathers," and "The New Year," excerpted in The Hawai'i Herald, February 7, 2020.
“A Moving Day” in The Graywolf Annual Seven: Stories from the American Mosaic, Scott Walker, ed., Greywolf Press
“Hybrid,” in Intersecting Circles: Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose, Marie Hara and Nora Okja Keller, eds., Bamboo Ridge Press
“The Science of Symmetry—A Love Story,” in Sister Stew, J. Kono and C. Song, eds., Bamboo Ridge Press
“A Small Obligation,” in Passages to the Dream Shore: Short Stories of Contemporary Hawaii, Frank Stewart ed.
“The Poor Pagan Children,” in Growing Up Local, Eric Chock et al, eds., Bamboo Ridge Press
"The Confession" and "The Grandmother" in The Best of Bamboo Ridge, Eric Chock and Darrell H.Y. Lum, ed, Bamboo Ridge Press
“A Moving Day” in Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology of Literature from the United States, Laurie King, ed., Addison-Wesley
"The Ebesu Girls," "Hilo Story," "Fathers," and "The New Year," excerpted in The Hawai'i Herald, February 7, 2020.
“A Moving Day” in The Graywolf Annual Seven: Stories from the American Mosaic, Scott Walker, ed., Greywolf Press
“Hybrid,” in Intersecting Circles: Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose, Marie Hara and Nora Okja Keller, eds., Bamboo Ridge Press
“The Science of Symmetry—A Love Story,” in Sister Stew, J. Kono and C. Song, eds., Bamboo Ridge Press
“A Small Obligation,” in Passages to the Dream Shore: Short Stories of Contemporary Hawaii, Frank Stewart ed.
“The Poor Pagan Children,” in Growing Up Local, Eric Chock et al, eds., Bamboo Ridge Press
"The Confession" and "The Grandmother" in The Best of Bamboo Ridge, Eric Chock and Darrell H.Y. Lum, ed, Bamboo Ridge Press
“A Moving Day” in Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology of Literature from the United States, Laurie King, ed., Addison-Wesley
Children's Books
The Last Dragon
Clarion Books for Children Unhappy about having to spend the summer with his great aunt in Chinatown, Peter discovers a sense of satisfaction in repairing the old ten-man dragon he finds in a shop window, with the help of his new friends. "The well-written text, as substantial as the artwork in specific and authentic detail, draws readers into Peter's new world. A welcome story about contemporary Chinese American life." -- School Library Journal Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. |
To Find the Way
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To Find the Way University Press of Hawaii Using his knowledge of the sea and stars, Vahi-roa the navigator guides a group of Tahitians aboard a great canoe to the unknown islands of Hawaii. Illustrated by Cissy Gray. |
Tiddalick the Frog
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Tiddalick the Frog Atheneum Retells the Aboriginal tale about what happened when the giant frog Tiddalik had such a great thirst that he drank all the fresh water of the world Illustrated by Ja-Hong Chen. |