The Bamboo Wife: A Novel

Pachinko meets Little House on the Prairie in this tale of a Japanese bride who struggles to preserve her heritage while building a new life after following her husband to Nebraska in the early 1900s.

Japan, 1917. Seventeen-year-old Haru is told by her father she is to marry and follow her new husband to America. She believes her stay in America will be brief, unaware that her husband’s family borrowed heavily to send him to America and, as a matter of honor, the debt must be repaid before t...