"Idemitsu has written an autobiographical first novel about a young Japanese woman who comes to America to study and stays to marry, raise a child, and find her identity as a woman caught between two cultures."
—Kirkus Reviews
“...we should take notice and read. This is a compelling and haunting narrative tracking skillfully back and forth through histories, between mothers, sisters, daughters and wives eternally damaged by being born into a mad world and its fairy-tale curse: ‘unfortunately, it’s a girl’”
—Judith Adams, director of Whitestone Arts
“This novel follows a fiercely troubled family across generations and continents, from Japan’s postwar struggles to economic recovery, and on to identity crises in the United States. Here we have an hysterical mother, a rich, domineering father, and sisters torn apart by sexual betrayal. Their search for reconciliation, at once poignant and furious, comes alive in a translation by the always superb Juliet Winters Carpenter.”
—Phyllis Birnbaum, author of Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy
"In one of Idemitsu’s novel’s most memorable moments, Hiroko, a Japanese artist living in New York City, wrestles with self-doubt after her father revokes financial support."
—Publisher's Weekly
"Idemitsu has written an autobiographical first novel about a young Japanese woman who comes to America to study and stays to marry, raise a child, and find her identity as a woman caught between two cultures."
—Kirkus Reviews
“...we should take notice and read. This is a compelling and haunting narrative tracking skillfully back and forth through histories, between mothers, sisters, daughters and wives eternally damaged by being born into a mad world and its fairy-tale curse: ‘unfortunately, it’s a girl’”
—Judith Adams, director of Whitestone Arts
“This novel follows a fiercely troubled family across generations and continents, from Japan’s postwar struggles to economic recovery, and on to identity crises in the United States. Here we have an hysterical mother, a rich, domineering father, and sisters torn apart by sexual betrayal. Their search for reconciliation, at once poignant and furious, comes alive in a translation by the always superb Juliet Winters Carpenter.”
—Phyllis Birnbaum, author of Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy
"In one of Idemitsu’s novel’s most memorable moments, Hiroko, a Japanese artist living in New York City, wrestles with self-doubt after her father revokes financial support."
—Publisher's Weekly
