![]() ![]() ![]() Tell us about the early years, tell us how much of an outcast this freckle face red-haired Mormon was in his community with a non-English speaking Japanese wife living amongst people whose fathers were killed in the very war Charlie was in.Īm I the only one seeing what a juicy, complex and amazing book this could have been? Look at those ingredients. 50 years of marriage: tell us the gory details. It reduced Shoko to a caricature.Īnd Charlie, the navy husband, the Mormon, the kind hearted giant, the old fashioned father, the acceptor of a son that was not his - there was so much there to work with that could've been great but he was so underdeveloped he was practically a literary fetus fluttering around in the background of this book. And even if I did, it hindered her storytelling. ![]() And the author supposedly wrote this based on her mother? I don't buy it. I actually have an aunt from Japan who knew not a lick of English and didn't even speak this way after 3-4 years. It lacked anything truly thought-provoking or original and the pidgin dialogue used by Shoko, the main character, was irritating and silly - the woman lived in the United States for over 50 years in a community of Caucasians with no other Japanese people around, she would not have this much broken English. This was a fast read, and faster still once I decided to plow through it and get it over with. This is not how you write a realistic, moving or compelling book. ![]()
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