Pass On, No Pass Back!

by Darrell H.Y. Lum

Darrell Lum's signature pidgin narratives dominate this nine-story collection, which also includes standard English stories and comic strip illustrations. Endearing and insightful, Lum's characters tell stories of initiation, family, wonder and community. In PASS ON, NO PASS BACK , "community is not defined by delineating boundaries, but by moving the center outwards to include what has traditionally been defined as marginal. Lum's is a vision of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0910043191
• ISBN13: 9780910043199
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Bamboo Ridge Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Growing up in Hawaii

This book really captures the flavor of what it was like growing up in Hawaii in the 1960s and 70s. The tiniest details bring back memories for me. It's written the way people really talk in Hawaii. The funny stories, like "J'Like Ten Thousand" are hilarious. I don't know what someone who didn't grow up in Hawaii would think of this book, but if you're Local, you'll understand.

Darrel Lum lends authority to Hawaiian pidgin English.

Darrel Lum is the writer usually credited with giving modern Hawaiian pidgin English the authority to speak loudly and proudly in polite company. Stories like "No Pass Back" and "Toads" from this volume and "Beer Can Hat" and "Primo Doesn't Take Back Bottles Anymore" from his earlier SUN volume clearly demonstrate why he is so popular with readers. I'd recommend that people who are not "tuned-in" to Hawaiian pidgin also purchase his taped reading of these Island classics. Mr. Lum is an accomplished reader much in demand. Especially good for high school and middle school English classes doing units on the use of dialect in literature, these stories compare favorably to the best dialectal works of Mark Twain