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Description: We no longer carry this title. "In Five Years on a Rock, we meet again the Oyama family of Milton Murayama's classic, All I Asking For is My Body. But this time the story is told by Sawa Oyama, the mother, whose moving story begins when she obediently leaves Japan for Hawaii as a picture bride. She plans to return from that "rock" in five years, but encounters Odyssean obstacles. There is endless labor and little sleep; she gets up in the middle of the night to be initiated into tofu making, she swills pigs, she works as a seamstress to supplement the family income, and bears one child after antoher while her husband's bad luck sinks the family into deepening debt. Sawa is sustained by her obaban, by those ingrained values from her home rock, and by her own remarkable spirit. This is Murayama's tribute to his mother and all those immigrant women who more than paid their dues." Hisaye Yamamoto

ISBN:0824816773 Author: Murayama, Milton Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Press Year Published: Listed: 5/25/2004 Price: US $9.95