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Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures

Name: Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
Brand: Random House Publishing Group
SKU: 9780449004289
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Contributors:

Kyoko Mori

Publisher:

Random House Publishing Group

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Minority Studies, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Memoirs

Award:

1999 Literary Award Nominee - Art of the Memoir Award

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Release Date:

1999-04-06

ISBN 13:

9780449004289

Weight:

0.7 lbs

Size:

8.20 x 5.50 x 0.40 inches

Pages:

274

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Twelve penetrating, painful essays explore the author's codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives and the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and ever-present to Americans.

About the Author
Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home; Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures; and The Dream of Water. Mori's essay "Yarn" was selected for The Best American Essays 2004 and Polite Lies was shortlisted for PEN's Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.

Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures

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