Rosebud (short story)
Creators: Wakako Yamauchi
Short story by Wakako Yamauchi that traces the friendship and rivalry between the narrator and another Japanese American girl/woman from childhood in the 1930s through the incarceration period to old age. In the section that takes place at Poston , the narrator works for the Poston Chronicle while Marion is prohibited from working by her overprotective mother until she suffers a nervous breakdown. Later, Marion marries a prominent non-Japanese American economist and largely lives her life outside the ethnic community.
Might also like " The Loom " by R.A. Sasaki; " Gambling Den " by Akemi Kikumura; " Makapuu Bay " by Wakako Yamauchi
| Author | Wakako Yamauchi |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | 2011 |
For More Information
Yamauchi, Wakako. "Rosebud." In Rosebud and Other Stories . Edited by Lillian Howan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2011. 1–17.