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Picture Bride
Picture Bride
Author: Yoshiko Uchida
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. — Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeepe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780295976167
ISBN-10: 0295976160
Publication Date: 6/1997
Pages: 216
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  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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3.4 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I really enjoyed this book. Probably because I knew a family, living in ND, who owned a business here and were forced to leave their home and live in a detention camp.
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A saga that spans the years 1917 to 1943 about one Japanese emigre to America-her life experiences and those of her friends and community. A fascinating tale of an immigrant experience made the more dramatic by the American response after Pearl Harbor


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