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The Necessary Hunger: A Novel (1997)
As a star basketball player in her last year of high
school, Nancy Takahiro's life is about to change forever. Faced with the
college recruitment process and unsure of where her skill will take her,
Nancy is not prepared for meeting Raina Webber, an All-State shooting
guard whose passion for basketball is matched only by her talent.When
Nancy's father and Raina's mother move in together, the girls are faced
with the challenge of negotiating their already intense friendship and
rivalry. As Nancy's love for Raina grows and both prepare to leave inner
city neighborhood that has nurtured them, they find themselves looking
toward a future that is no longer easily defined.Set against a backdrop of
racial tension between the Asian American and African American communities
of Los Angeles and infused with tenderness and passion. The Necessary
Hunger explores not only the intricacies of the game of basketball, but
also the very nature of the relationships young women create in the face
of the odds that are stacked against them.
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Southland
(2003) - Winner
2003 Lambda Literary Award
for
Lesbian Fiction
Southland brings us a
fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop
of an ever-changing Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie
Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank
Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will,
Jackie discovers that four African-American boys were killed in the store
Frank owned during the Watts Riots of 1965. Along with James Lanier, a
cousin of one of the victims, Jackie tries to piece together the story of
the boys' deaths. In the process, she unearths the long-held secrets of
her family's history.
Southland depicts a young woman in the process of
learning that her own history has bestowed upon her a deep obligation to be
engaged in the larger world. And in Frank Sakai and his African-American
friends, it presents characters who find significant common ground in their
struggles, but who also engage each other across grounds-historical and
cultural-that are still very much in dispute.
Moving in and out of the past-from the internment camps of World
War II, to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s, to the
streets of Watts in the 1960s, to the night spots and garment factories of the
1990s-Southland weaves a tale of Los Angeles in all of its faces and forms.
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