This week I'm participating in a joint blog tour with two
other authors of new memoirs set in Asia. You can enter our giveaway here. We each read each other's books, and I'm pleased to share my thoughts on the first one, The Good Shufu by Tracy Slater.
THE GIST
An American academic finds herself falling in love and
moving to Japan with a Japanese salary man.
THE REVIEW
American Tracy Slater was not looking to move abroad. It came as quite a surprise when she fell in love with a Japanese
businessman who also happened to be one of her English students. In this candid
memoir, she shares the process of coming to terms with the new life she
would share with the man she loved. Rather than permanently moving to Japan, Tracy spent years trying to split her time between her new life and marriage and her first
love: the city of Boston. Eventually, the combination of her father-in-law's
ailing health and her efforts to conceive throughout her early forties drew
Tracy further into the arms of Japan.
This memoir is a candid look at a journey of love and
compromise as a couple works to make a life together despite vastly different
backgrounds and plans for their lives. The central relationship in the memoir
is sweet in its earnestness, and you really root for Tracy and her husband
throughout the book. The portrayal of Tracy's relationship with her father-in-law is especially moving as his health slowly fails. She examines what it is like to take on a highly traditional carer role
as a woman who never quite expected her life would take this turn.
The memoir is deeply thought-provoking because of the way
Tracy's expectations and affluent background war with her new life as a wife in
a more conservative culture. Her journey to conceive after the age of 40 is
heart-rending. I won't spoil the ending, but this is a book that will leave you
thinking for days afterwards.
THE LINKS
THE COST
The Kindle edition is $10.99. I received a free copy of the ebook for review.
THE GIVEAWAY
Don't forget to enter the giveaway for a chance to win the hardcover edition of The Good Shufu, along with copies of Here Comes the Sun and Year of Fire Dragons. Look for my review of Here Comes the Sun tomorrow!
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