Made in Hawaii: Volume 46 - Paperback

by Cedric Yamanaka (Author)

Celebrating life in America's fiftieth State

A father in Hawaii takes his troubled son fishing, unable to tell him the sad news he must share. A woman is lost at sea during a reef walk and sends her family into turmoil. An unlikely relationship develops between a Realtor and an Ultimate Fighting Champion. These are just some of the sad, funny and memorable characters found in the Made in Hawaii short story collection.

Author Biography

Cedric Yamanaka was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the recipient of the Helen Deutsch Fellowship for Creative Writing at Boston University, where he earned a Master's Degree in English. At the University of Hawaii, he received the Ernest Hemingway Memorial Award for Creative Writing.

His short fiction has appeared in a number of literary journals, and he is the author of In Good Company, a collection of short stories published by the University of Hawaii Press. He is a recipient of the Cades Award for Literature and a past winner of the Honolulu Magazine Fiction Contest. Screen adaptations of his short stories have received awards at the Hawaii International Film Festival.