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In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken desire to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind thirteen years before.
Throughout her seven-week trip, Kyoko struggles with her ever-present past and the lasting guilt over her mother's death. Although she meets with beloved cousins and other relatives, she agonizes over the frustrating relationship she barely maintains with her fierce father and selfish stepmother. Searching for answers, Kyoko attempts to find a new understanding of what her father is really like, and how it has affected her own place in two distinct worlds. As her time to leave draws near, Kyoko begins to understand that her family connections may be a powerful cry of the heart, but it is the new world that has given her escape from a lonely past and the power to believe in herself.
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American Authors, American Women authors, Biography, Japanese American women, Journeys, Mothers and daughters, Social life and customs, Suicide, Travel, Women authors, Japan, social life and customs, Japanese american women, Japan, biographyPeople
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The dream of water: a memoir
1996, One World, Fawcett Columbine
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The Dream of Water: A Memoir
December 1994, Henry Holt & Co
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