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Author Itō, Hiromi, 1955- author.

Title The thorn puller / Hiromi Ito ; translated by Jeffrey Angles.

Publication Info. Berkeley, California : Stone Bridge Press, [2022]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3026777~S1
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 Nichols Adult Fiction  F ITO    AVAILABLE
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Description 299 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published in Japan as: Toge-nuki jizo: shin sugamo jizo engi.
Summary This novel "explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society....One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the 'thorns' of human suffering." -- publisher's website.
Subject Jizō engi -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
Aging parents -- Japan -- Fiction.
Sandwich generation -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Women caregivers -- Fiction.
Asian Americans -- Fiction.
East Asians -- Fiction.
Genre Domestic fiction.
Added Author Angles, Jeffrey, 1971- translator.
Translation of work: Itō, Hiromi, 1955- Toge-nuki Jizo. English.
Added Title Toge-nuki jizo. English.
ISBN 9781737625308 (paperback)
173762530X (paperback)
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