Critical Praise

"Beautifully written, thoroughly conceived...an auspicious debut with great promise of things to come. "

———The Orlando Sentinel

"Authentic and appealing...lovely and lyrical. "

———The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Cinematic...Yoshikawa's story of three generations of a Japanese American family is a story of uncertainly resolving into clarity--and vice versa. "

———Los Angeles Times Book Review

"An intelligent cross between the bestselling Memoirs of a Geisha and the haunted-by-a-lost-love movie Ghost. "

———The Detroit News

"There are many pleasures in Yoshikawa's glistening prose and fresh symbolism. "

———The New York Times Book Review