Heads By Harry

You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours.  But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister.  But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles: a flamboyant older brother who wants to be a hairdresser, a stubborn father who refuses to accept her into the family business, and the Santos brothers--two pig-hunting, ex-high school football players who don't know what to think of their headstrong, outspoken neighbor.

About the author

Lois-Ann Yamanaka is the author of Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Blu's Hanging, and a young adult novel, Name Me Nobody.  She is the winner of a 1998 Lannan Literary Award and the 1998 Asian American Literary Award, and lives in Honolulu with her husband and son.

Summary

You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles: a flamboyant older brother who wants to be a hairdresser, a stubborn father who refuses to accept her into the family business, and the Santos brothers--two pig-hunting, ex-high school football players who don't know what to think of their headstrong, outspoken neighbor.

Product details

• Authors: Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• Publisher: Harper Collins (US)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2000
• EAN: 9780380733163
• ISBN: 978-0-380-73316-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 264 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; India, Anthologies: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Plays, Playscripts, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: General, DRAMA: Women Authors, FICTION: Family Life / Siblings, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Feminist, ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN: ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Asian / Indic, FICTION: World Literature / American / General, Asian & Asian American / Asian American Literature