The good shufu
Subtitle: finding love, self, and home on the far side of the world
By: Tracy Slater
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780399166204
Subjects: Social life and customs; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Marriage; Social conditions; Sex role; Housewives; Biography; Women
Description: "In this memoir of travel and love, a fiercely independent American woman finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu. In Japanese it means "housewife," and it's the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. A writer and academic, Tracy had carefully constructed a life she loved in her beloved hometown of Boston. But everything was upended when she fell head over heels for the most unlikely mate: a Japanese salaryman based in Osaka who barely spoke her language. Deciding to give fate a chance, Tracy built a life in Japan filled with contradictions and dissonance, but also strange moments of enlightenment and joy"--