by Gail Tsukiyama
At first I wasn't sure I'd like this because of the sumo wrestling stuff. Grunting, glaring fat men sporting diapers and topknots just don't send me anywhere I care to go. Fortunately, there's much more to the book than just sumo, and I ended up liking it quite a bit. I learned a lot about Japane...
Story about a Japanese family in WWII and for two decades afterwards, this one drags out all of the things I hate in a novel -- stale stereotypes, a lot of misinterpetations and little to keep me interested. Now that I've read three books by this author, I'm not going here again. For the longer revi...
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