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How to be an American housewife

by Margaret Dilloway

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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.

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