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Miki's Mad

Miki's Mad

Tanabe, George

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 1944521216
ISBN13: 9781944521219
Publisher: Deuxmers, LLC
Published: Mar 1 2024
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
... led by a memorable picaresque hero ... An endlessly surprising page turner. - Roger Jellinek, Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival

... wondrous and sexy, sweetly humorous and heartbreakingly tragic-a profoundly life affirming pleasure to read. - Lee Siegel, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Hawaii; author of Love in a Dead Language

Miki's Mad tells the tragicomic fictional story of how a Japanese immigrant at a sugar plantation in 1900s Hawaii made a fast fortune, not by working the fields, but by diving beneath social customs to mine the depths of love, greed, revenge, ambition, kindness, dreams and other human conditions.

On a steamship from Japan to Hawaii, Shuzo Taga discovers Miki, a young woman who is slowly going mad-angry, insane and wildly funny-and yet she, sustained by the spirit of a devious cat, enables him to turn his fantasies into cash. This picaresque tale plays on stereotypes that our protagonist hijacks as he out-whites the haoles, out-yellows the Japanese, out-browns the Hawaiians, and in the end, outsmarts himself. This novel is also a love song to Waialua, on the north shore of O'ahu.

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