num_pages: 269
description: Winner of the 1991 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Talking to High Monks in the Snow captures the passion and intensity of an Asian-American woman's search for cultural identity.
language: English
title: Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey
titlecomplete: Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey
genres: Memoir, Japan, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Biography, Travel
ratings_count: 175
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Washington State Book Award
publisher: Harpercollins