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by Kyoko Mori


  ALSO BY KYOKO MORI

  The Dream of Water

  One Bird

  Shizuko’s Daughter

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  Copyright © 1997 by Kyoko Mori

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  eISBN 9781429934770

  First eBook Edition : June 2011

  Portions of chapter twelve, “Home,” appeared in The Hungry Mind Review

  “The Retrieval System” (excerpt) copyright © 1978 by Maxine Kumin, from Selected Poems 1960-1990 by Maxine Kumin. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mori, Kyoko.

  Polite lies: on being a woman caught between

  cultures/Kyoko Mori.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-8050-4079-X (alk. paper)

  1. Mori, Kyoko. 2. Japanese American women—Middle West—Biography. 3. Women—Middle West—Biography. 4. Japanese women—Middle West—Social life and customs. 5. Women—Japan—Social life and customs. 6. Middle West—Biography. I. Title.

  F358.2.J3M67 1998

  97-10445

  305.48’8956073’092—dc21

  CIP

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  First Edition 1997

 

 

 


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