Two Nails, One Love tx a young man named Sukeji

a young man named Sukeji Morikami boarded a passenger  steamer at the port of Yokohama and set off to make his fortune

In the years before the war

made the long journey by ship to Hawaii

In the course of searching for her mom

But despite the odds

Two Nails, One Love tx a young man named SukejiBy 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