Folks You Meet in Longs and Other Stories

by Lee Cataluna

Overview

"FOLKS YOU MEET IN LONGS AND OTHER STORIES is simply magical. Through voice, Lee Cataluna conjures up your neighbor, your co-worker, your raucous classmates, the old ladies you see in Chinatown, the uncles sitting in the garage, and you. Their images appear before you as you listen to Cataluna's dead-on capturing of sound with an incredible sensibility, artistry, and poignancy"--Lois-Ann Yamanaka.

Fiction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780910043717
Publisher:	Bamboo Ridge Press
Publication date:	04/28/2005
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lee Cataluna was born on Maui and raised in plantation houses in Wailuku, Kōloa, and Ka'u. She was a 2004 recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature and her first book, FOLKS YOU MEET IN LONGS AND OTHER STORIES, received the Hawai'i Book Publishers Association's Ka Palapala Po'okela Award for Excellence in Literature. Her play, Da Mayah, was included in the anthology HE LEO HOU, A NEW VOICE, which also received the Excellence in Literature Ka Palapala Po'okela. After working for ten years in local television and radio, she became a columnist for The Honolulu Advertiser and currently writes for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser while a graduate student in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.

What People are Saying About This

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

"Folks You Meet in Longs is simply magical. Through voice, Lee Cataluna conjures your neighbor, your co-worker, your raucous classmates, the old ladies you see in Chinatown, the uncles sitting in the garage, and you. Their images appear before you as you listen to Cataluna's dead-on capturing of sound with an incredible sensibility, artistry, and poignancy."--(Lois-Ann Yamanaka, novelist)

Editorial Reviews

Each monologue is a separate, individual storyline that gives us a slice of local life, and often tends to veer toward the satiric, bizarre or downright weird-albeit always within the realm of possibilities. The laughter that Cataluna's script elicits, in fact, stems from the fact that you recognize some of these people as denizens of your own local Longs . . . . In the monologues, Cataluna seems to be testing a more robust edginess and darkness in combination with her humor.
—Wayne Muromoto

Honolulu Weekly