The dream of water
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Kyoko Mori.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Mori, Kyoko -- Journeys -- Japan.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.; Japanese American women -- Travel -- Japan.; Suicide -- Japan.; Japan -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Description: In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There - looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips to her grandparents' farm - she relived the memories and uncovered the secrets that unlocked her past.

In The Dream of Water, a series of chapters that are themselves "small perfections," she leads us to the "larger happiness" of an autobiography that is also a work of art.