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| Author | Margaret Dilloway |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Chick lit Fiction |
| Publisher | Penguin Publishing |
Publication date | 2010 |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-0399156373 |
How To Be An American Housewife is a 2010 novel by Margaret Dilloway. It is based on the experiences of Dilloway's mother who was a Japanese war bride.[1][2]
Synopsis
The book tells the story of Shoko Morgan, a mother of two and wife to American GI Charlie. Charlie decided to contact Shoko's brother Taro, whom she last saw when she married Charlie at the end of World War II. However, she is too ill to return her country. Shoko asked her daughter Sue and granddaughter to go Japan to find her uncle to discovered her mother's life secret.
Characters
- Shoko Morgan - A Japanese Woman who married American GI whom they had 2 children
- Suiko (Sue) Morgan - Shoko's and Charlie's daughter and brother to Mike and niece to Taro and Suki
- Charlie Morgan - Shoko's husband and Mike's and Sue's father is Irish-American GI who is kindhearted yet shy
- Mike Morgan - Shoko's and Charlie's son and younger brother to Sue and Uncle
- Taro - Shoko's younger brother and uncle to Sue and Mike who hate Americans who fired as school principal
- Mille Morgan - Charlie's mother who become Shoko's mother in law and grandmother to Mike and Sue
- Nanny - a babysitter whom Shoko disliked as a child
- Craig - Sue's ex-husband and Helena's father who married her at age of 20
- Suki - Taro's and Shoko's sister.
- Ronin - a Eta whom Shoko fallen in love is actually born to English father and Japanese mother he and Shoko lovers however he was killed by Testuo
- Testuo - Taro's childhood friend who engaged with Shoko until he cheated her with her friend Yuki.
- Toyoko - Japanese wife of African American soldier
- Jim - Toyoko's husband
- Kyle Leonard - An American general who met Shoko
- Lorraine- A Woman who met Charlie and Shoko
- Dr Cunningham - Shoko's doctor
- Helena - Sue's and Craig's 13 year old daughter
- Dr Su : Shoko's doctor is a Chinese-American doctor
- Toshiro : A Japanese traveler who met Sue and Helena
- Yasuo Takana - Suki's son is a teacher of Ukei High high school who met his cousin Sue
- Hiroshi - Yasuo's lover is cook
- Sumiko - Taro's granddaughter who met Sue and Helena who find her grandfather
- Taro-chan- Sumiko's four year old son who shared namesake with great-grandfather
Awards
The book was a John Gardner Fiction Award Finalist in 2011.[3]
References
- ^ Newman, Judith (2010-08-23). "Picks and Pans Main: Books". People.com. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
- ^ Beth Carpenter, The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC (2011-08-02). "How to Be an American Housewife". IndieBound. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "THE BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY JOHN GARDNER FICTION BOOK AWARD". Binghamton University. Binghamton Center for Writers. Retrieved 12 April 2013.