num_pages: 288
description: "POETIC . . . REMARKABLY HONEST . . . Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint."--The Wall Street JournalIn an memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken desire to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind thirteen years before.
language: English
title: The Dream of Water: A Memoir
titlecomplete: The Dream of Water: A Memoir
genres: Travel, Japan, Asia, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 209
publisher: Random House Publishing Group