Picture bride
a novel
1st ed.
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Word Count
54,000 words, Guess
Page Count
216 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2741295M
- ISBN-100873584295
- OCLC Control Number15428816
- OCLC Control Numberpicturebridenove0000uchi_m0a0
- Library of Congress Control Number86046369
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1179301
- Goodreads5020855
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3571.C247 P5 1987
Description
Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s. Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers; Dr. Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted land he loves. All are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps. Although tragedy strikes each of them, the same spirit and strength that brought her to America enable Hana to survive.
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