Hawaii, Okinawan, Okinawans in Hawaii 

"In 'Significant Moments in da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son: One Hawai`i Okinawan Journal, Tonouchi is able to intricately weave together his pitch-perfect Local Pidgin voice, his finely-tuned Local Comedic timing and subtly nuanced flashes of irony, to create the narrative persona of a fourth-generation Local Okinawan in Hawai`i seeking to define himself within the context of his relationships with his mother, father, grandmother, grandfather, and girlfriend and future-wife. So vivid are the characters you meet, the voices from the different generations that you hear, and the wide array of emotions that you experience vicariously, that as you read the entire collection from beginning to end as a single unified entity, you are left with the very strong impression that you have just finished reading a novel spanning the life of a Local Oriental father through the eyes of his son"--From So What's It About?