The story Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers is a novel by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. This story is about the life of Lovey Nariyoshi, a Japanese-American living in Hawaii. Lovey's tale is like a cultural roots and identity story. I think this because the story is from a first person point of view. She tells her life how it is, and it seems very authentic (how it is written) as the language Lovey (and her family and friends) uses is pidgin english. One example from the book:
"I wanna be Lovey Beth Cole. Mrs. Michael Cole. Wanna marry you, Dennis. Be a Cole. Be a haole. A Japanee with a haole last name."
From her statement, it shows her desires, or at least what she wishes for. Through out the book, Lovey shares, first-hand, about her everyday encounters, wheither it be playing with barbies with Jerry, to wanting to be in a rich haole family, or "growing up girl problems".
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