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The follow-up to "When The Emperor Was Divine" tells of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco between the wars as mail-order brides. 'A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience... Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' "Marie Claire"
The follow-up to "When The Emperor Was Divine" tells of young Japanese women brought to San Francisco between the wars as mail-order brides. 'A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience... Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' "Marie Claire"
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