Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "Picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s.
Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted l.
Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper
Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers
Dr.
Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "Picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s
