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Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei

David Mura

Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. Turning Japanese was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 30th, 2005
  • Pages: 400
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.22in - 5.30in - 1.04in - 0.98lb
  • EAN: 9780802142399
  • Categories: Literary FiguresMemoirs