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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

Ito, Susan Kiyo

Paperback

Series: Machete

Biographies GeneralPregnancy & Adoption

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0814258832
ISBN13: 9780814258835
Publisher: Mad Creek Books
Published: Nov 4 2023
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A Library Journal best memoir of 2023 - Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography - Finalist, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity. Though the two share a physical likeness, an affinity for ice cream, and a relationship that sometimes even feels familial, there is an ever-present tension between them, as a decades-long tug-of-war pits her birth mother's desire for anonymity against Ito's need to know her origins, to see and be seen. Along the way, Ito grapples with her own reproductive choices, the legacy of the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II, and the true meaning of family. An account of love, what it's like to feel neither here nor there, and one writer's quest for the missing pieces that might make her feel whole, I Would Meet You Anywhere is the stirring culmination of Ito's decision to embrace her right to know and tell her own story.

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