- Fiction, Japanese, Mail order brides, History
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Julie Otsuka
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 129
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307700001
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