Drops of Water (short story)

Short story by Ferris Takahashi. A presumably young Sansei social worker and a colleague discuss the case of an elderly Issei homeless man who seems to want to remain homeless. Sections written from the perspective of the Issei man reveal his life as a laborer first on Hawai'i sugar plantations , then in the continental U.S. and the impact of his wartime incarceration and the razing of the residential hotel he once lived in.

Might also like " Time of Decay " by Ferris Takahashi; The Cats of Mirikitani (film) (2006); Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita