Overview : Laura Murata is a university professor of women's studies inTokyo. She is also a divorced mother of Maya, a seven-year-old girl. Widow... Read More
Overview :Suzanne Kamata's many fans know she writes wonderful fiction, but with Waiting we learn she's a poet too. Every poem in this small, beautifu... Read More
Overview :Pearl Dubois is a Southern belle. She was born in New Orleans to a prominent and wealthy family. During the Second World War, she wants to h... Read More
Overview :CINNAMON BEACH is a multicultural tragicomedy told from three strong female points of view in which an American writer living in Japan retur... Read More
Overview :When Christine, an idealistic young American teacher, meets and marries Hideki Yamada, an aspiring Japanese high school baseball coach, she ... Read More
Overview :These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales and lore, explore the lives of individuals caught between desire and du... Read More
Overview :As seen on MTV.com At sixteen, Trudy Baxter is tired of her debutante mom, her deadbeat dad, and her standing reservation at the juvenile d... Read More
Overview :Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a bicultural girl with cerebral palsy, grew up in Michigan with her single mother. For as long as she could r... Read More
Overview :Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a bicultural girl with cerebral palsy, grew up in Michigan with her single mother. For as long as she could r... Read More
Overview :Divorced American mom Lauren Murata has stumbled into a university job teaching Home Economics at a conservative Japanese women's college wi... Read More
Overview :Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team-a ... Read More
Overview :The first collection of literary writing on raising a child with special needs, Love You to Pieces features families coping with autism, dea... Read More
Overview :SQUEAKY WHEELS: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair is a mother-daughter travel memoir woven with compar... Read More
Overview :Anna and the French Kiss meets Stoner & Spaz in a contemporary young adult coming-of-age novel about a girl, her struggles, and her art. Ai... Read More
Overview :The American writer Suzanne Kamata had lived in Japan for more than half of her life, yet she had never explored the small nearby islands of... Read More
Overview :Elise Faulkner is more at home in the waters of her beloved Lake Michigan than on land where her beauty queen mom is always on her back abou... Read More