TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mura,David
TI  - Turning Japanese: : memoirs of a sansei
SN  - 0385423446
U1  - 92 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor Books
KW  - Mura, David
KW  - Japanese Americans
KW  - Biography
N2  - Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own
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