"An excellent novel about prewar Japanese-American plantation life in Hawaii. . . Murayama has turned his own past into art and recreated the experience of prewar years on the plantations. . . A human documentary that is subtle, funny, and completely memorable." - Japan Times
"Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body" has already become an underground classic and campus bestseller...It turns up on...reading lists in the picaresque company of Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, and Lucky Jim, books which similarly use a vernacular language and viewpoint to liberate the younger characters from the duplicities and pretensions of inherited conventions, be they American, British, or Japanese...I suggest that you read [it] if you want to experience how Hawaii has come to be the place it is, torn between the traditions of the past and the enterprises of the future." - Rob Wilson, Bamboo Ridge
"Milton Murayama's All I Asking for Is My Body" has already become an underground classic and campus bestseller...It turns up on...reading lists in the picaresque company of Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, and Lucky Jim, books which similarly use a vernacular language and viewpoint to liberate the younger characters from the duplicities and pretensions of inherited conventions, be they American, British, or Japanese...I suggest that you read [it] if you want to experience how Hawaii has come to be the place it is, torn between the traditions of the past and the enterprises of the future." - Rob Wilson, Bamboo Ridge