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Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei

by David Mura · 1991

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The first memoir of a Japanese-American of this generation, Turning Japanese chornicles a quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision. Turning Japanese will long stand as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own.

Subject
biographytravel
Themes
diversity
Setting
JapanAsia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 376 pages

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