Tuesday, August 26, 2008

About My Novel

My novel is called HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE. It will be published by Putnam Books in 2009, or maybe 2010. Don't know yet.

Here's the crazy-good synopsis that someone at the publishing house wrote:

HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE is a novel about the strong pull of
tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of tradition. Set in California and Japan, it tells the story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI as a way of improving her and her family's fortunes, moved with him to the States, and tried to learn how to be a proper American housewife; and her grown daughter Sue, who finds her own life as an American
housewife is not at all what her mother would have wanted for her, or even what Sue had hoped for herself. When Shoko's illness prevents her from making a long-awaited trip to Japan to be reunited with her brother, she asks Sue to go in her place, and the trip changes both women's lives in unexpected ways. With beautifully delineated characters and unique entertaining glimpses into Japanese and American family life and aspirations, this is also a moving mother and daughter story that reaches a happy conclusion. Interspersed with quotations from Shoko's guide to being an American housewife, this is a warm and engaging novel full of surprising
insight.

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