Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire: A Novel

Title

Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire: A Novel

Subject

Japanese American families -- Fiction.

Description

Ben Ohara is the sole surviving member his family since his father, one of a small group of WWII draft resisters (known as the No-No Boys) during the internment of Japanese Americans, committed suicide when Ben was young and his mother, whose wish to escape the past was as strong as his father's ties to it, has died with her secrets, while now his younger brother, a troubled and brilliant astrophysicist, has mysteriously vanished in the Mojave Desert.

Creator

Mura, David

Publisher

Coffee House Press

Date

2008

Type

PS3563 .U68 F36

Identifier

2003.500.4172

Collection