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Availability:In StockContributor:Mako YoshikawaSeries:21st Century EssaysPublish date:2024-02-08Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mad Creek BooksISBN-13:9780814258934ISBN-10:081425893XUPC:9780814258934Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, EssaysBook Topic:Asian & Asian AmericanSize:8.43 x 5.43 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC462A8YDR
Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir
Mako Yoshikawa's father, Shoichi, was a man of contradictions. He grew up fabulously wealthy in prewar Japan but spent his final years living in squalor; he was a proper Japanese man who craved society's approval yet cross-dressed; he was a brilliant Princeton University physicist and renowned nuclear fusion researcher, yet his career withered as his severe bipolar disorder tightened its grip....
Series: 21st Century Essays
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mad Creek BooksISBN-13:9780814258934ISBN-10:081425893XUPC:9780814258934Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, EssaysBook Topic:Asian & Asian AmericanSize:8.43 x 5.43 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC462A8YDR
Mako Yoshikawa is the author of the novels Once Removed and One Hundred and One Ways. Her essays have been published in LitHub, Harvard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Missouri Review, and Best American Essays, among other places. She is a professor of creative writing and directs the MFA program at Emerson College. She lives in Boston and Baltimore.
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