It's a fascinating memoir about the author's life growing up in Japan during the Meiji Restoration and then moving to America as a bride. Her depiction of Japanese culture and the struggles of moving to a new country with a completely different culture are vivid and feel true-to-life. The prose is charming and oddly reminiscent of Little Women. Would recommend!
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Weijia reviewed A Daughter of the Samurai by Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki.
Fascinating piece of early Asian American literature!
5 stars
Weijia reviewed Impostor Syndrome by Kathy Wang
In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, …
Fun novel about life in Silicon Valley
4 stars
I'm not usually into spy/crime fiction but I found this to be a fun, breezy read about life in Silicon Valley. Some elements (everything in the novel set in Russia) felt a little-over-the-top but the Silicon Valley part feels true-to-life (sometimes a little too true-to-life).