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ISBN: 9780807175491
published: 2021
pages: 160

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Calabash Stories

In the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez and Maxine Hong Kingston, and deeply rooted in the intricacies of the author’s Japanese-Hawaiian heritage, Calabash Stories is a lucid, unforgettable collection. Jeffrey J. Higa’s stories arise from different points in the same fertile landscape: At times, the recurrence of certain details (a beige Volkswagen bug, a famous entertainer) makes them glow with deeper meaning  at others, the reemergence of potent archetypes (a sick child, an old man living alone) invokes a dreamstate held between author and reader. Like the traditional Hawaiian calabash, these stories invite their reader to a family table where we are welcomed and nourished by communal traditions. Higa is a master storyteller, delighting in life’s humor and strangeness while arriving at the intimacy and poignancy that comes from a shared understanding of grief.

I am enchanted by Calabash Stories. There is so much humor and heartbreak and humanity in these stories—not to mention so much style and gravitas. I hope Jeffrey Higa will be writing us stories for many years to come—I, for one, will be rooting for him loudly.

CJ Hauser

 author of Coral Road

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