Polite Lies
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ALSO BY KYOKO MORI
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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
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First Edition 1997