How to be an American Housewife
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The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
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PUBLISHED
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 276 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780399156373
0425241297
0399156372
SUBJECTS
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.