Lensey Namioka
Birth date: June 14, 1929
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I wanted to like this book, but nothing in it quite worked for me. It's an issue book that didn't satisfactorily deal with the issues. Like, it's pretty didactic but not very explicit. I just wanted one character to make the distinction between ethnicity and nationality (seriously, if everyone tho...
I thought I would enjoy this book more than Ties That Bind, Ties that Break, but that wasn't the case. I wouldn't say I enjoyed it less, I just didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. It's still a good book. There's a lot of racism that is probably correct for the time. There's a lot about...
This book was very unsubtle at times, but only at the beginning. With the rest of the book to balance it out, the beginning felt more true than it did as I was reading it. There's a case of pretty blatant racism, but sometimes racism is really blatant in real life. Unfortunately I found all the ch...
I've loved this book since I was a child. Recently reread it for the first time in a long time. My longer review is here.
Longer review will be on my blog soon, but I just have to say I found the restaurant name "Sushi Hi" so annoying and it made me a little angry every time I read it.
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