num_pages: 400
description: Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb, where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty, intelligence, and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. Turning Japanese was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
language: English
title: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
titlecomplete: Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
genres: Autobiography, Travel, Japan, Biography, Japanese Literature, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 227
publisher: Grove Press