Polite Lies

Kyoko Mori's life falls into two halves: childhood in Japan, adulthood in the Midwest. In both places she has been an outsider, unable to quite mimic everyone's polite lies. In twelve penetrating, painful, and at times hilarious essays, she explores the codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives. Throughout, Mori examines the paradox at the center of her own life: she is too Japanese to trust irrational feelings such as love or grief and too American to live a life built on denying them. Standing in this painful place of perfect honesty, Mori explores the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart, the rituals of mourning that make death human, and the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and ever-present to Americans.

המשפט הראשון: When my third grade teacher told us that the universe was infinite and endless, I wrote down her words in my notebook, but I did not believe her.

שנה

1997

שפה

English

הוצאה

Ballantine Books

מהדורות

3

עמודים

272

ISBN

9780449004289

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata