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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir -- Susan Kiyo Ito, Paperback
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"Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own healing and to encourage us all to be brave enough to do the same in our own stories." -W. Kamau Bell Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity. Though the two share a physical likeness, an affinity for ice cream, and a relationship that sometimes even feels familial, there is an ever-present tension between them, as a decades-long tug-of-war pits her birth mother's desire for anonymity against Ito's need to know her origins, to see and be seen. Along the way, Ito grapples with her own reproductive choices, the legacy of the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II, and the true meaning of family. An account of love, what it's like to feel neither here nor there, and one writer's quest for the missing pieces that might make her feel whole, I Would Meet You Anywhere is the stirring culmination of Ito's decision to embrace her right to know and tell her own story.
Author: Susan Kiyo Ito
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 11/04/2023
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780814258835
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/2023 pg. 15
Library Journal 10/01/2023 pg. 130
Author: Susan Kiyo Ito
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: 11/04/2023
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780814258835
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/01/2023 pg. 15
Library Journal 10/01/2023 pg. 130
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Adoption & Fostering, Asian & Asian American, Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Machete, Mad Creek Books, Memoirs, Mothers and daughters, Paperback, Susan Kiyo ItoContact form
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