Turning Japanese Memoirs of a Sansei Author:David Mura (excerpts) — "... David Mura's memoir is about what it means for an Asian-American to become, or to turn, Japanese, and in its subtle analysis of self-identity and self-containment, family secrets and sexual trauma, it touches a wound that all of us have, even if we have not felt it as keenly as the author has. To this subject he brings a poet's ... more »feeling for language and a clear analytic eye. ..." Charles Baxter
"This intimate memoir reads like a novel you can't put down. It's a book about transformation and reclamation, about looking in the mirror and seeing through the complexities of racial and cultural identity. Mura wrestles with images of self, sexuality, politics, marriage and heritage..." Patricia Weaver Francisco
"David Mura's memoir moves one to remember our own long-lost origins, to recognize the junctures we turned from outsiders into insiders, how precarious and illusory such status can be, but in turn, how open we might be to the possibilities of a world community." Mary La Chapelle« less