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How to Be an American Housewife
- Author
- Margaret Dilloway
- Narrator
- Emily Durante, Laural Merlington
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 5 August 2010
- Run Time
- 7 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Offering an entertaining glimpse into American and Japanese family lives and their potent aspirations, this is a warm and engaging novel full of unexpected insight.
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Details
- Author
- Margaret Dilloway
- Narrator
- Emily Durante, Laural Merlington
- Duration
- 7 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 August 2010
- ISBN
- 9781400187737
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
How to Be an American Housewife is a novel about mothers and daughters and the pull of tradition. It tells 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. Offering an entertaining glimpse into American and Japanese family lives and their potent aspirations, this is a warm and engaging novel full of unexpected insight.
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