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Apr 21, 2014uncommonreader rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
This short novel is about the "picture brides" who came to California from Japan in the early 1900s and their lives and their families' lives up to the internment of the Japanese during WW II. Like other readers, I did not find that the use of the collective first person to encompass the experiences of many really worked. Also, for a book which does not attempt to universalize but is specifically about Japanese people, it is not clear how their experiences were different from other migrant workers.