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The Yokota Officers Club
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Series: Ballantine Reader's Circle
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ISBN10: 0345452771
ISBN13: 9780345452771
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Published: Oct 29 2002
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780345452771
Publisher: Ballantine Group
Published: Oct 29 2002
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
A GEM, POLISHED AND FACETED IN A WAY THAT PULLED ME INTO THE HEART OF IT WITH THE FIRST PARAGRAPH. . . . Important, touching, meaningful, and uplifting.
-JEANNE RAY
Chicago Tribune
After a year away at college, military brat Bernadette Root has come home to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to spend the summer with her bizarre yet comforting clan. Ruled by a strict, regimented Air Force Major father, but grounded in their mother's particular brand of humor, Bernie's family was destined for military greatness during the glory days of the mid-'50s. But in Base life, where an unkempt lawn is cause for reassignment, one fateful misstep changed the Roots' world forever. Yet the family's silence cannot keep the wounds of the past from reemerging . . . nor can the memory fade of beloved Fumiko, the family's former maid, whose name is now verboten. And the secrets long ago covered up in classic military style-through elimination and denial-are now forcing their way to the surface for a return engagement.
-JEANNE RAY
Chicago Tribune
After a year away at college, military brat Bernadette Root has come home to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, to spend the summer with her bizarre yet comforting clan. Ruled by a strict, regimented Air Force Major father, but grounded in their mother's particular brand of humor, Bernie's family was destined for military greatness during the glory days of the mid-'50s. But in Base life, where an unkempt lawn is cause for reassignment, one fateful misstep changed the Roots' world forever. Yet the family's silence cannot keep the wounds of the past from reemerging . . . nor can the memory fade of beloved Fumiko, the family's former maid, whose name is now verboten. And the secrets long ago covered up in classic military style-through elimination and denial-are now forcing their way to the surface for a return engagement.
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