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Lois ann yamanaka born september 7, 1961 is an american poet and novelist from hawai. Many of her literary works are written in hawaiian pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues. Thomas traherne an empty book is like an infants soul. A mother of 12 and five other people, including one of her sons, were slain executionstyle thursday at a house where drugs were sold in the worst multiple killing in. This hawaii is not for tourists poverty, squalor, and violence mark the anything but paradise created by loisann yamanaka, an awardwinning writer.
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