Turning Japanese

Memoirs of a Sansei

• Author(s): David Mura,
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Pages: 386
• ISBN_10: 0802142397
  ISBN_13: 9780802142399
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies , Travel / Asia / East / Japan ,

Description:... Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. Turning Japanese was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.