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Comfort Woman Author: Comfort Woman is the story of Akiko, a Korean refugee of World War II, and Beccah, her daughter by an American missionary. The two women are living on the edge of society--and sanity--in Honolulu, haunted by Akiko's periodic encounters with the spirits of the dead, and by Beccah's struggles to reclaim her mother from her past. Slowly and ... more »
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This haunting novel about a "comfort woman" and her relationship with her daughter is startling and at times, almost suffocating. The title refers to a time when the Japanese held women captive in WWI as "comfort women", women that were renamed and repeatedly sexually assaulted and beaten. Our protagonists mother survived the camps, but her mind does not. Although she assumes a "normal" life in America with a husband and daughter, she retreats from her memories of rape by communing with the spirits of the dead. This retreat prevents a full and lasting relationship with her daughter. She can not show the types of love Beccah needs, which means Beccah assumes the caretaker role. But Beccah eventually learns about her mothers past and finds her own way to communicate with the spirits that haunted her mother and finds the love her mother could never fully show.
I give this three stars because a five star book usually knocks me out of the water. The book also didn't reach a certain level for me, that "four" star level. Nonetheless, I highly recommend it.
This haunting novel about a "comfort woman" and her relationship with her daughter is startling and at times, almost suffocating. The title refers to a time when the Japanese held women captive in WWI as "comfort women", women that were renamed and repeatedly sexually assaulted and beaten. Our protagonists mother survived the camps, but her mind does not. Although she assumes a "normal" life in America with a husband and daughter, she retreats from her memories of rape by communing with the spirits of the dead. This retreat prevents a full and lasting relationship with her daughter. She can not show the types of love Beccah needs, which means Beccah assumes the caretaker role. But Beccah eventually learns about her mothers past and finds her own way to communicate with the spirits that haunted her mother and finds the love her mother could never fully show.
I give this three stars because a five star book usually knocks me out of the water. The book also didn't reach a certain level for me, that "four" star level. Nonetheless, I highly recommend it.
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