★★★ 1/2
"Women are weak, but mother's are strong."
This was the first audio book that I have listened to since I stopped having to drive an hour to work and back everyday to Whitewater. Since I'm going to start doing a lot more driving soon on a daily basis, I figured I might as well get some more books read.
This book was descent. The author uses different themes to describe a group of mail-order Japanese bride's experiences as they travel from Japan and live their new lives in the United States. The story was told by strings bits and pieces of each women's live together as they adapted to new challenges in a world completely different in the one that they had grown up in. It talked about everything from the voyage to America to wife and motherhood to the war.
I'm glad I listened to it as an audiobook - the author had a unique way to blending each women's lives together that was brought out by the narrator. I really enjoyed this technique for the first couple of chapters, but it started to seem a bit like an essay after awhile - one of the main reasons why I did not give it more stars. Plus, I found myself way to invested in each of the characters. After finishing the book, I really wanting to what happened to each of the women because I couldn't at all tell who was who.
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