Polite Lies : : on Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
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Japan & Wisconsin
submitted by sdunav on July 18, 2014, 2:05pm
Mori describes some really eye opening cultural differences between Japanese and American culture - health care (and whether you're told the 'whole' truth about your condition!), banking (just trust your relatives and don't ask questions), and the 'polite lies' of the title.
I really liked her comparison of houses and marriages in Japan to small town (Green Bay) Wisconsin, too. She had some interesting insights on midwestern attitudes - kind of Prairie Home Companion-ish.
Sometimes the interesting cultural examinations didn't mesh well with her life story - which was sad in many ways, especially when it came to her relationship with her mother. I thought it dragged a bit in the second half, but not so much it didn't make me want to finish reading it. And there was a quite beautifully lyric final chapter that made up for the previous occasional slow passages.
PUBLISHED
New York : Henry Holt & Co., 1997.
Year Published: 1997
Description: 258 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0449004287 :
080504079X :
SUBJECTS
Mori, Kyoko.
Japanese American women -- Middle West -- Biography.
Women -- Middle West -- Biography.
Japanese women -- Middle West -- Social life and customs.
Women -- Japan -- Social life and customs.
Middle West -- Biography.