Kernels of Ken
The San Francisco newspaper refers to Ken with this name.
What is Kenneth?
Hua’s girlfriend.
Who is Mira?
Ken had just gotten into this type of dancing.
What is swing dancing?
Hua’s father referred to his ethnicity in this way.
What is “Eastern” or “Oriental?”
Ken once flung this into the sunroof of a passing limo.
What is a Texas Longhorns cap?
The name of Ken’s fraternity.
What is Sigma Alpha Mu?
The (physical) name of the casino that Hua and his friends went to after the funeral.
What is Barona?
The way Hua got a big scab on his shin.
What is Hua slid into third base during the softball game?
The era of martial law in Taiwan was known as this.
What is “The White Terror”?
Ken taught Hua about treating a hangover with this breakfast meal.
What is steak, eggs, and a side of pancakes?
Ken owned a necklace made of these.
What are white shells?
What Hua wrote on the first page of the blue journal he bought.
What is “Everything is wrong?”
The working title of the movie that Ken and Hua wanted to make.
What is “Barry Gordy’s Imbroglio”?
The month in which Hua turned twenty-one.
What is late June?
The clothes that Hua bought to wear to Ken’s funeral.
What is a pair of pinstripe pants and a black bowling shirt?
The name of the song that Ken had driven all over San Diego for.
What is Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter?”
Hua felt as though he was the executor of Ken’s ______ estate.
What is spiritual?
Hua came up with this unreligious name for his gift exchange.
What is “the Secret Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Gift Giver?”
Ken jokes that Hua wants to be a ___ when he grows up.
What is a researcher?
The reason no girls were invited to the gift exchange.
What is because they celebrated “goodwill and brotherhood?”
The make, model, and year of the car that Ken drove.
What is a 1991 Honda Civic?
DAILY DOUBLE: It was this temperature when Hua wore a winter coat.
What is 75 degrees?
The name of the Apartment building that Ken was moving into.
What is Rapa-Nui?
Hua's parents come to America not for Hua, but for _________.
Who are themselves?
This store was in the airport.
What is the San Diego Abercrombie?