Great Lakes Book Awards While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life.
As immigrants, her parents approached the challenges of living in America, and maintaining t.
As the only Asian family in a tiny township, Furiya\'s life revolved around Japanese food and the extraordinary lengths her parents went to in order to gather the ingredients needed to prepare it.
Great Lakes Book Awards While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life