Miki's Mad

By: Tanabe, George

"... led by a memorable picaresque hero ... An endlessly surprising page turner." - Roger Jellinek, Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival

"... wondrous and sexy, sweetly humorous and heartbreakingly tragic-a profoundly life affirming pleasure to read." - Lee Siegel, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Hawaii; author of Love in a Dead Language

Miki's Mad tells the tragicomic fictional story of how a Japanese immigrant at a sugar plantation in 1900s Hawaii made a fast fortune, not by working the fields, but by diving beneath social customs to mine the depths of love, greed, revenge, ambition, kindness, dreams and other human conditions.

On a steamship from Japan to Hawaii, Shuzo Taga discovers Miki, a young woman who is slowly going mad-angry, insane and wildly funny-and yet she, sustained by the spirit of a devious cat, enables him to turn his fantasies into cash. This picaresque tale plays on stereotypes that our protagonist hijacks as he out-whites the haoles, out-yellows the Japanese, out-browns the Hawaiians, and in the end, outsmarts himself. This novel is also a love song to Waialua, on the north shore of O'ahu.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944521216
• ISBN13: 9781944521219
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Deuxmers, LLC
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"