Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei

"The poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient and ascendant culture" (The New York Times).

Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei, a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb where he heard more Yiddis...