Born in Oakland, California, in 1910, the young Toshio Mori dreamed of being an artist, a Buddhist missionary, and a baseball player. Instead, he grew flowers in the family nursery business, and—influenced by contemporaries such as Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Heming-way —produced a body of extraordinary fiction. His well-crafted, humorous, wise tales celebrate the Japanese American community he knew so well, and reach beyond it to describe the essential human condition. The promise of a writing career was tragically interrupted when the publication of his first collection of short stories, Yokohama, California, was cancelled after the United States entered World War II. Mori was soon on his way from Oakland to Topaz, Utah—one of 110,000 citizens of Japanese descent held in internment camps between 1941 and 1944. When Yokohama, California was finally published in 1949, Toshio Mori was, at last, able to claim his place as "one of the most important new writers in the country" (William Saroyan). Unfinished Message includes fifteen stories, a novella, letters, photographs, and an interview with Toshio Mori. Some of this material has never before been published.
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Toshio Mori’s work speaks to the mixture of the two cultures at its core: the stories are fresh and Zen-like... -- Al Young, co-editor of The Literature of California
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Lawson Fusao Inada is a sansei poet and advocate for the advancement of Asian American literature. He is editor of Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Heyday, 2000), co-editor of Aiiieeeee! (Dutton, 1997) and The Big Aiiieeeee! (NAL/Dutton, 1991) and author of Legends from the Camp and Before the War: Poems as They Happened (Coffeehouse Press, 1993). He is a professor at Southern Oregon University and lives in Ashland, Oregon.
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From a parked automobile Hauro stuck his head out a little and peered across the street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Togo Satoshima, Motoji Tsunoda, John Tabe, Toshio Mori, Tack Saiki, San Francisco, San Leandro, Japanese American, Tad Aihara, George Sato, United States, George Murai, San Jose, The Distant Call of the Deer, New York, Seventh Street, Hatayama Nursery, Papa Harada, Sherwood Anderson, Yosh Yoshida, Current Life, Hiro Murata, Human Comedy, Kansas City, Los Angeles New!
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From a parked automobile Hauro stuck his head out a little and peered across the street. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Togo Satoshima, Motoji Tsunoda, John Tabe, Toshio Mori, Tack Saiki, San Francisco, San Leandro, Japanese American, Tad Aihara, George Sato, United States, George Murai, San Jose, The Distant Call of the Deer, New York, Seventh Street, Hatayama Nursery, Papa Harada, Sherwood Anderson, Yosh Yoshida, Current Life, Hiro Murata, Human Comedy, Kansas City, Los Angeles New!
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- Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori on 18 pages
- No-No Boy by John Okada in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Country Voices: The Oral History of a Japanese American Family Farm Community by David Mas Masumoto in Back Matter
- Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David Guterson in Front Matter
- Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience by Lawson Fusao Inada in Back Matter
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- Dark God of Eros: A William Everson Reader (California Legacy) by William Everson in Back Matter
- Essential Saroyan (Essential) (California Legacy Book) by William Saroyan in Back Matter
- Land of Orange Groves and Jails: Upton Sinclair's California (California Legacy Book) by Upton Sinclair in Back Matter
- Tales of the Fish Patrol (California Legacy Book) by Jack London in Back Matter
- Essential Muir: A Selection of John Muir's Best Writings (Essential) (California Legacy Book) by Fred D. White in Back Matter
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