I sat down for a telephone interview with David Yoo, the author of Girls for Breakfast, on a Monday evening.

Nick Park is your average teenaged boy. He plays sports, goes to school and is obsessed with girls. David Yoo’s debut, Girls for Breakfast, tells the life of a Korean-American boy stuck in the white suburban hell of Connecticut. At first reading, Nick appears to be nothing more than a colossal pervert with a preternatural precocity for female breasts.

Kazuo Ishiguro is perhaps most widely known for his novel, The Remains of the Day. Like this earlier work, Never Let Me Go is narrated from a first-person perspective by a narrator who is looking into her past and trying to make sense of her life, especially her childhood.

Humanity does not understand what God wants and, according to Neale Donald Walsch, author of the phenomenal bestselling series, Conversations with God, this is the cause of the suffering and violence in our world today.

Meet Chun Sue. Teenage rebel and high school drop out. A parent’s worst nightmare. She is also a writer, a dreamer, a lover, and a rock ‘n’ roll fan who isn’t afraid to pursue her passions.

This issue, Halfway editors have compiled a few poems that relate to some of the articles published in this month’s edition. The work is the property of it’s original author. You can begin to view them below.

In only five chapters, Julie Otsuka relays the events from the reading of the evacuation notice to the internment itself from each family member’s point of view. We never know the names of the characters. However, this only serves to emphasize the universality of the story.