How to be an American housewife

Margaret Dilloway

earliest edition we have, 2010 Thorndike Press, 2010 413 pages

Thorndike Press large print basic

The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.

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Editions we hold

How to Be an American Housewife edition · 2011 · Berkley · 9780425241295
How to be an American housewife edition · 2010 · G.P. Putnam's Sons · 276 pages · 9780399156373
How to be an American housewife edition · 2010 · Thorndike Press · 413 pages · 9781410432766

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