Excerpted from
Excerpted from The Art of Gaman by Delphine Hirasuna. Copyright © 2005 by Delphine Hirasuna. Excerpted by permission of Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Photography © 2005 Terry Heffernan.