num_pages: 272
description: Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new.
language: English
title: Polite Lies: On being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
titlecomplete: Polite Lies: On being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
genres: Asian Literature, Feminism, Essays, Cultural, Japan, Biography Memoir, Biography, Japanese Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 367
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.