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"The poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient and ascendant culture" ( The New York Times ). 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. "A dizzying interior voyage of self-discovery and splintered identity." — Chicago Tribune "There is brilliant writing in this book, observations of Japanese humanity and culture that are subtly different from and more penetrating than what we usually get from Westerners." — The N

Who reads Turning Japanese : Memoirs of a Sansei?

Author

David Mura

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802196026

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Travel

Rating

3.34 / 5 (164 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14