Sushi King and Company

Abstract

"Sushi King and Company" is a collection of six short stories set in Hawai'i that deal with issues - gender, place, language, identity that I feel represented a perspective of the local environment I live in. I wanted to put forward an array of the different types of people around me. Some stories are realistic, and some stories more stylized, but as a group they explore ways of being in local society. Hopefully, this goal to convey local and current stories will resonate with readers as much as it did with me as I wrote them. In my critical analysis of this collection, I will discuss how I prepared to write the pieces and also what motivated me, pertaining to literary influences and the environment of local literature today. I will also expound upon the stories in the collection, and what I hoped to express by writing them, and who I hope will read them.