from the TLC book sale.

Notes from my copy:
A series of stories about Japanese women in the early 1990's traveling to meet their new husbands in America. The stories use spare prose, and a royal "we" language to tell the story of landing in San Francisco, fanning out over California, then being rounded up during WWII and sent to internment camps during the war. The method of storytelling reminded me a lot of O'Brien's Things We Left Behind way of story telling

A wishlist book! Enjoy.

If you aren't familiar with Bookcrossing, take a few minutes to check out this very cool site. Bookcrossers LOVE books, and more than anything, they love to read books and then set them free for other people to find and enjoy. I would love it if you would leave a journal entry -- you can say where you found the book or how you liked it when you read it. Then, when you are ready, pass it along for someone else to enjoy! Thanks and happy reading!

Thank you so very much for thinking of me and for sending this book out to me.
I am very, very pleased with it! Look forward to reading it and I will make sure it travels further after I've finished it.

A very nice book to read. I perceived it as mainly sad, but that didn't keep me from reading.
The way of writing, lots of we, of repeating things that happened to many people from the group of women (and later their families) worked very powerful, without as it seems using one superfluous word.
A book about a subject I hardly know anything of, so I might try and find some more books on it.

This book travels with me to Mainz. I’ll put it on the book buffet, hoping that someone will pick it up and let it continue its journey.

Picked it up from the book buffet at the convention in Mainz. I loved 'When the Emperor was Divine', so I have high hopes for this one. Thanks for sharing!

Stolen from the Book Swap Game at the UK Uncon 2019. Read it on my way home - what a book. The use of WE added so much power to the stories and further highlighted the differences within a group of women reduced to being named as "traitors" by the end of the book.
Will make sure this goes to a good home.

Can anyone remember who I was to pass this onto? The book has resurfaced in my flat - and I can't remember who!