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Lum's is a vision of the possibility once expressed by Derek Walcott that 'the highest expression of culture is a total acceptance of every human being.'\" -- The Mid-American ReviewWinner of the 1992 Association for Asian American Studies National Book Award and the 1991 Elliot Cades Award for Literature.From HONOLULU MAGAZINE'S 50 Essential Hawai‘i Books You Should Read in Your Lifetime:“Only in Hawai‘i” probably best describes these stories, whose unassuming titles—“Victor,” “Horses,” “Toad”—launch readers into their young characters’ stream-of-pidgin consciousness. Cartoons by Lum’s intermediate school classmate, Art Kodani, add deadpan absurdity. 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