Two Nails, One Love tx By John Okada

By John Okada

While Koko

made the long journey by ship to Hawaii

80 percent of the businesses on the Monterey Wharf were Japanese-owned

directed and produced by Antonia Grace Glenn

Two Nails, One Love tx By John OkadaBy Alden M. Hayashi . The story opens in New York City with the narratorEthan Taniguchi, a Japanese American gay man in his early fortiesawaiting the arrival of his mother from Hawaii. The two have been estranged for more than a decade, and the reunion is fraught with past grievances bubbling to the surface. After a fateful ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty, Ethan's mother reluctantly reveals details of her shattered childhoodher familys