Heart of fire : an immigrant daughter's story

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Label

Heart of fire : an immigrant daughter's story

Title remainder

an immigrant daughter's story

Statement of responsibility

Mazie K. Hirono

Creator

• Hirono, Mazie, 1947-

Author

• Hirono, Mazie, 1947-

Subject

• Hirono, Mazie, 1947-
• Japanese American women -- Hawaii -- Biography
• Large type books
• Large type books
• Legislators -- Hawaii -- Biography
• Legislators -- United States -- Biography
• Lieutenant governors -- Hawaii -- Biography
• Lieutenant governors -- Hawaii -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• United States, Congress | House -- Biography
• United States, Congress | Senate -- Biography
• Women legislators -- Hawaii -- Biography
• Women legislators -- United States -- Biography
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
• Hawaii -- Politics and government -- 1959-

Genre

• Large type books
• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered school in Hawaii, she would go on to hold state and national office, winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2012. This intimate and inspiring memoir traces her remarkable life from her upbringing in Hawaii, where the family first lived in a single room in a Honolulu boarding house while her mother worked two jobs to keep them afloat; to her emergence as a highly effective legislator whose determination to help the most vulnerable was grounded in her own experiences of economic insecurity, lack of healthcare access, and family separation. Finally, it chronicles her evolution from dogged yet soft-spoken public servant into the fiery critic and advocate we know her as today."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 328.73/092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

E901.1

LC item number

.H57 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult