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Once Removed
The Washington Post praised Mako Yoshikawa’s extraordinary first novel, One Hundred and One Ways, as “strikingly assured.” The Orlando Sentinel called it “an impressive accomplishment.” In Once Removed, Yoshikawa continues in the tradition of Alice Walker and Amy Tan with a powerful story of two women from different cultures who form a deep friendship that, though severely...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
June 29th 2004
by Bantam
(first published May 27th 2003)
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Once Removed offers quite a lot to the reader. It leads us through culture and generational dynamics, difficult choices and unusual perspectives on some universal dilemmas. The most obvious question is whether Claudia should leave Vikram, who is married with two children. Yoshikawa gently leads us around this decision point, and lets us think about it from several points of view. She does us the favour of not offering obvious and easy answers Yoshikawa also lets us see things through the lens of...more
Found her writing to be poetic (sometimes it took me a while to get back to her original thread since she tended to place offshoots like this in parens :)) and insightful. the book was compelling enough to keep reading quickly till the end. Makes me want to pick up her other book soon.... thanks Marin!
Apr 18, 2010
Chrissie
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Daisy, this looks good....... I do not know exactly why this appeals to me, quite out of character, but it does! Probably the text - check is what did it!
Finally found a "Y" for my list! The writing in this story was beautiful, even if it sometimes seemed the characters didn't develop as deeply as I'd hoped.
I was expecting more from the story.
About a love affair and the relationship of sisters and how blended families bring women together. The book is a loving tale of noticing a relative mature as with meeting often and then not so often will do. Journey's with men not often mention until later stages.
I'm really into Japanese writers, I don't know why. Maybe it's my obsession with Japan, but This story about two girl's who are stepsister's, that moves from their childhood into adulthood is really goos. I recommend it to any woman.
This book was haunting--a little sad and slightly depressing. The lack of communication between characters is a point of frustration, but I do like how the narrative changes among the characters--that gives it a true depth of story.
i liked the bond these two girls had with each other as friends and stepsisters and glad that in the end they found each other again despite being seperated for so many years.
nicely written, interesting stories... greatly dislike the ending.
Not giving up on this yet...
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