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Luke (korrick) | 2004 comments Child of Fortune, Yúko Tsushima, translated from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt, 1978, Japan, NOVEL

"...She realizes she has often only moved through the motions and been passive about her choices: she got married because she was pregnant, divorced because her husband wanted to, and got jobs through friends because it was convenient. She questions how she got so removed from her daughter and from herself..."

(H.S., p. 197)


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