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.
An edition of Polite Lies
(1997)
Polite lies
on being a woman caught between cultures
1st Fawcett ed.
by Kyoko Mori
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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.
Publish Date
1999
Publisher
Ballantine Publishing Group,
Henry Holt & Co.
Language
English
Pages
258
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1999, Ballantine Publishing Group, Henry Holt & Co.
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Polite Lies: On being a Woman Caught Between Cultures
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Polite lies: on being a woman caught between cultures
1997, Henry Holt & Co.
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Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, c1997.
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