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osheanik's review
2.0
You can tell this is a first book. With a more stern editor and cutting off about 50 pages, this could have been a 3+ star book. As it stands, there are moments where it shines, but it is not tight enough. Katie attempts to analyze everything and relate it all to history and family and Japan in a heavily descriptive style. Sometimes you see the parallels she draws, sometimes you don't. She is an amateur anthropologist here, trying to make sense of a country she half-knows, half-remembers. Would read movie reviews by the author, but wouldn't read this book a third time. I enjoyed her chapter on Pachinko parlors the most - her descriptions made me see the place and characters there vividly.
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