Heads by Harry

by Lois-Ann Yamanaka

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A Japanese-American family in Hawaii receives a double shock when a son discovers his homosexuality and a daughter becomes pregnant out of marriage. The family are the Yagyuus, father a taxidermist, mother a science teacher, parents of three children and by the end of book grandparents of one. Final volume in a trilogy which began with Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers.

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Lois-Ann Yamanaka is the author of Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers (FSG, 1996), Blu's Hanging (FSG, 1997), and Heads by Harry (FSG, 1999). Recipient of a 1998 Lannan Literary Award and the 1998 Asian American Literary Award, she lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Heads by Harry
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Heads by Harry

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3575 .A434 .H4Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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