false 1898104 1 A young mother fights impossible odds to be reunited with her child in this acutely insightful first novel about an intercultural marriage gone terribly wrong.<br> <br>Jill Parker is an American painter living in Japan. Far from the trendy <cite>gaijin</cite> neighborhoods of downtown Tokyo, she's settled in a remote seaside village where she makes ends meet as a bar hostess. Her world appears to open when she meets Yusuke, a savvy and sensitive art gallery owner who believes in her talent. But their love affair, and subsequent marriage, is doomed to a life of domestic hell, for Yusuke is the <cite>chonan</cite>, the eldest son, who assumes the role of rigid patriarch in his traditional family while Jill's duty is that of a servile Japanese wife. A daily battle of wills ensues as Jill resists instruction in the proper womanly arts. Even the long-anticipated birth of a son, Kei, fails to unite them. Divorce is the only way out, but in Japan a foreigner has no rights to custody, and Jill must choose between freedom and abandoning her child.<br> <br>Told with tenderness, humor, and an insider's knowledge of contemporary Japan, <cite>Losing Kei</cite> is the debut novel of an exceptional expatriate voice.<br> <br> <b>Suzanne Kamata</b>'s work has appeared in over one hundred publications. She is the editor of <cire>The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan</cite> and a forthcoming anthology from Beacon Press on parenting children with disabilities. A five-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she has twice won the Nippon Airways/Wingspan Fiction Contest. 1899723 1 1 2008 Losing Kei total:27|5:6|4:11|3:5|2:5| 27 99 57 9 4 1 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 04 06:41:36 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 06 14:54:13 -0700 2009 1 Losing Kei: A Novel
Written By: Suzanne Kamata
Published By: Leapfrog Press
Date: January 1st, 2008
Pages: 195
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0972898492

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It was an interesting look into family dynamics in Japan. It is quite sad how few rights mothers have in that country.

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