![]() We find out that Shokko has suffered from a weak heart for much of her life, and in the present moment is finding it increasingly difficult to accomplish even the simplest daily tasks like cleaning and grocery shopping. The first half of the novel is told in Shokko's point of view, and the second in Suiko's (with a final third section alternating between the two women's perspectives). In this regard, the story has resonances with Taniguchi's The Ocean in the Closet.ĭilloway's novel centers on Shokko, the Japanese woman who marries an American soldier, and their daughter Suiko/Sue. More importantly, the novel traces the multi-generational legacy of such a Japanese woman and her mixed-race daughter and granddaughter. The novel, while telling a fictional story of a Japanese war bride, was thus inspired by the story of Dilloway's mother and the cultural divide that she faced as a Japanese woman relocated to the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. ![]() The author bio in the back flap of the book, however, revealed that Dilloway's mother is a Japanese woman who married a white American soldier after WWII. ![]() ![]() I saw Margaret Dilloway's How to Be an American Housewife (Putnam 2010) at the bookstore a couple months ago and was intrigued by the cover and title.Īt first, I thought it might be a book like Memoirs of a Geisha, a narrative by a white American about the exotic Japanese woman. ![]()
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