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Polite Lies : On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Twelve essays by a Japanese-American writer about being caught between past and present, old country and new.In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring. From her unhappy childhood in Japan, weighted by a troubled family and a constricting culture, to the American Midwest, where she found herself free to speak as a strong-minded independent woman, though still an outsider, Mori explores the different codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives: the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart; the rituals of mourning that give us the courage to accept death; the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and second nature to Americans. In the sensitive hands of this compelling writer, one woman's life becomes the mirror of two profoundly different societies.

Who reads Polite Lies : On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures?

Author

Kyoko Mori

Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805040791

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, Fiction

Rating

3.55 / 5 (285 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14