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How to be an American housewifeHow to be an American housewife

How to be an American housewife

Margaret Dilloway

3.7(10)on Hardcover

About this book

The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.

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OL Work ID
OL15531586W

Subjects

Mothers and daughtersFictionMothers and daughters, fictionFiction, womenFiction, family lifeLarge type booksJapanese Americans

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