Polite Lies On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures

Name: Polite Lies On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
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ISBN: 9780449004289

ISBN-10: 0449004287

ISBN-13: 9780449004289

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Authors: Kyoko Mori

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In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Born in Kobe, Japan, Kyoko Mori settled in Wisconsin at the age of sixteen. Now a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in creative writing at Harvard University, she is the author of the prizewinning "Shizuko's Daughter" & four other books.