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Kyoko Mori returns to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, to grapple with the memory of her mother’s suicide and the family she abandoned thirteen years earlier. Over seven weeks, she visits relatives, wrestles with a fraught relationship with her father and step‑mother, and seeks new understanding of how these ties have shaped her identity in both Japan and the United States. As her journey nears its end, Mori discovers that while family memories pull at her heart, the experience of living in a new world offers her a chance to heal and to believe in herself.
First publish date: December 1994
Genre: Memoir/Family Memoir
Authors: Kyoko Mori
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