“the book gets off to a slow and quite shallow start, but ends up surprising with its depth. it touches on the need to belong somewhere and the confusion this can generate when 'somewhere' is in a culture not your own. brown does a good job of highlighting some differences between japanese and american culture --i found his observations to be largely on point and true. a second theme is that of parent-child relationships, the difficulty they can cause when all is not as it should be, and how a...”

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