Growing up in Hawaii, Lovey Nariyoshi is having the worst year of her life. Overweight and unpopular, she's sick of being poor and settling for home-made and second best. Her family thinks she's uppity and her schoolteacher scorns the way she talks. For, above all, Lovey is Japanese-American - not white, not haole - and from the food she eats to the pidgin she speaks, nothing in her life fits the standard model of success. Heartbreaking and hilarious by turns, written in a language that explodes off the page, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers introduces one of the most vibrant new voices in fiction today.
- ISBN10 0156004836
- ISBN13 9780156004831
- Publish Date 15 April 1997 (first published 1 January 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mariner Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 277
- Language English