Polite Lies
Polite Lies : On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures KYOKO MORI,
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0449004287
Edition: Paperback; 1999-04-06
Summary:
In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into
her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and
stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled
family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she
found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman,
though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of
silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American
women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep
us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept
death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese
women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this
compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two
profoundly different societies.
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