"Lyrical...
A beautifully written book about a bitterly painful coming of age."THE KIRKUS REVIEWSYuki Okuda knows her mother would be proud of her grades and her achievements in sports if she were alive.
Mori\'s essay "Yarn" was selected for The Best American Essays 2004 and Polite Lies was shortlisted for PEN\'s Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award..
Most important, she has to learn how to live with herself: a twelve-year-old Japanese girl growing up alone, trying to make sense of a tragedy that makes no sense at all....
About the Author: Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home
Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures; and The Dream of Water.
And Yuki has to learn how to live with a father who doesn\'t seem to love her and a stepmother who treats her badly.
But she committed suicide. "Lyrical...
A beautifully written book about a bitterly painful coming of age."THE KIRKUS REVIEWSYuki Okuda knows her mother would be proud of her grades and her achievements in sports if she were alive
