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"Bernadette "Bernie" Root, military brat, speaks. She has never really noticed what a peculiar bunch of nomads her eight-member Air Force family is (with the exception of her Post Princess sister, Kit), until the summer after her first year of college when she joins them at their new assignment: Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.".
"Just as Okinawa turns out to be a sorry version of the Japanese paradise Bernie knew in her childhood at Yokota Air Base, her family - especially her once-beautiful mother, Moe, and her former spy-pilot father, Mace - seems to have been in decline since those glory days of the American Raj. Days when her mother was happy and their best friend, Fumiko, now lost to them, was the family maid.
The worst part of Okinawa for Bernie, though, is realizing how perfectly she fits with her oddball family and how badly she needs to get out.".
"So when a dance contest - first prize, a trip to Japan - offers a chance to escape, she takes it, playing second banana to a third-rate comedian on a tour of Japan's military bases. At their grand finale at the Yokota Officers' Club, Fumiko finally reappears, and Bernie discovers the terrible price that is paid when the secrets nations hide end up buried within families."--BOOK JACKET.
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Yokota Officer's Club
January 2004, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Hardcover
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Yokota Officers Club
October 2002, Tandem Library
Library Binding
in English
1417648171 9781417648177
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The Yokota Officers Club: a novel
2002, Ballanatine Books, Ballantine Books
in English
- 1st Ballantine Books ed.
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The Yokota Officers Club: a novel
2001, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
- 1st ed.
037541214X 9780375412141
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"On the map at the back of the pamphlet, Japan resembles a horned caterpillar rearing up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean."
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