{"product_id":"the-dream-of-water-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Dream of Water: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKyoko Mori\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"POETIC . . . REMARKABLY HONEST . . . Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint.\"\u003cbr\u003e--The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003eIn an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken desire to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind thirteen years before.\u003cbr\u003eThroughout her seven-week trip, Kyoko struggles with her ever-present past and the lasting guilt over her mother's death. Although she meets with beloved cousins and other relatives, she agonizes over the frustrating relationship she barely maintains with her fierce father and selfish stepmother. Searching for answers, Kyoko attempts to find a new understanding of what her father is really like, and how it has affected her own place in two distinct worlds. As her time to leave draws near, Kyoko begins to understand that her family connections may be a powerful cry of the heart, but it is the new world that has given her escape from a lonely past and the power to believe in herself.\u003cbr\u003e\" A] COMPELLING MEMOIR . . . LYRICAL.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer\u003cbr\u003e\"ASTONISHINGLY BEAUTIFUL . . . Through the clarity filters the beauty of a large heritage that Mori is by now too American to share, but still Japanese enough to appreciate its redeeming value and to be in some measure restored by it.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"MAGICAL . . . ENLIGHTENING.\"\u003cbr\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePOETIC . . . REMARKABLY HONEST . . . Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint.\u003cbr\u003e--The Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003eIn an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken desire to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind thirteen years before.\u003cbr\u003eThroughout her seven-week trip, Kyoko struggles with her ever-present past and the lasting guilt over her mother's death. Although she meets with beloved cousins and other relatives, she agonizes over the frustrating relationship she barely maintains with her fierce father and selfish stepmother. Searching for answers, Kyoko attempts to find a new understanding of what her father is really like, and how it has affected her own place in two distinct worlds. As her time to leave draws near, Kyoko begins to understand that her family connections may be a powerful cry of the heart, but it is the new world that has given her escape from a lonely past and the power to believe in herself.\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] COMPELLING MEMOIR . . . LYRICAL.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer\u003cbr\u003e\"ASTONISHINGLY BEAUTIFUL . . . Through the clarity filters the beauty of a large heritage that Mori is by now too American to share, but still Japanese enough to appreciate its redeeming value and to be in some measure restored by it.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Los Angeles Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\"MAGICAL . . . ENLIGHTENING.\"\u003cbr\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKyoko Mori\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three nonfiction books: \u003ci\u003eYarn: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRemembering the Way Home;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePolite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Water\u003c\/i\u003e. Mori's essay \"Yarn\" was selected for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Essays 2004\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePolite Lies\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for PEN's Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8.52 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468177817853,"sku":"9780449910436","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/dXRPL3U5L0NGR2NzSGo4SGVwRzQ0dz09.webp?v=1777285702","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-dream-of-water-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}