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Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
March 2010
On Sale: March 3, 2010
416 pages
ISBN: 0802119077
EAN: 9780802119070
Hardcover
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A New York Times Editors’ Choice and a blazing and authentic
new literary voice, Peter Nathaniel Malae’s raw and
powerful, bullet-fast debut novel looks at contemporary
America through the eyes of one disillusioned son. What We Are follows twenty-eight-year-old Samoan-American
Paul Tusifale as he strives to find his place in a culture
that barely acknowledges his existence. Within San Jose’s
landscape of sprawling freeways and dotcom headquarters,
where the plight of migrant workers is ever-present, Paul
lives outside society, a drifter who takes a personal
interest in defiantly—even violently—defending those in
need. As he moves through the lives of sinister old friends,
suburban cranksters, and septuagenarian swingers, Paul
battles to find the wisdom he desperately needs, whether
through adhering to tradition or casting it aside. A dynamic addition to America’s diverse literature of the
outsider, What We Are establishes Peter Nathaniel Malae as
an authentic, gifted new writer, whose muscular prose brings
to life the pull of a departed father’s homeland, the anger
of class divisions, the noise of the evening news, and in
the end beautifully renders the pathos of the disengaged.
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