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Tara
Mar 28, 2009 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: book-club, memoirs
I enjoyed this book and thought it gave an interesting perspective to Japanese culture. I think that she did a nice job portraying how difficult it would for a westerner to become part of Japanese society (although at times she came off as ungrateful to her host family)and met one man (Roberto) who married a japanese girl and was adopted into the family. I learned a lot about a culture that I am not as familar with and it gave me a nice perspective to my grandparents and the culture they were ra ...more
Jade17
Feb 24, 2008 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: japan
Karen
Jun 05, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Betty
Aug 11, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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