Download or read book Ballad of Yachiyo written by Philip Kan Gotanda and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The time is 1919, a period of limited prosperity for Japanese families toiling in the sugarcane fields of the Hawaiian islands. Yachiyo, a young peasant girl, is destined for life in the fields and for a marriage to Willie, a lowly worke