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"I have spent most of my life in New Jersey, but the blood of a geisha courses through me yet."
If Kiki Takehashi's life is dramatically different from that of her reserved Japanese-American mother, it is light-years away from that of her grandmother, whom she knows only through old family stories. Kiki has recently become engaged to Eric, a handsome, successful New York City lawyer. But at the same time she is haunted--quite literally--by the memory of her friend Phillip, killed the previous year in a mountaineering accident.
Kiki has never met her grandmother Yukiko, for whom she is named. Still, thoroughly American though she is, she feels a secret kinship with her. Kiki is swept up by the story of this strong, proud, passionate woman who, against all odds, in a time and place far different from her own, was sold by her impoverished family, became a famous geisha, and found the love that has so far eluded the rest of the Takehashi women.
Lyrical, haunting, and stunningly evocative, One Hundred and One Ways introduces a powerful and exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.
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Anetra Nabozna
reviewed One Hundred and One Ways on December 23, 2018
One Hundred and One Ways
After studying this book for a personal paper in one of my english classes, I was somewhat disappointed. There isnt much to write about. Pretty prose only gets you so far. If I wanted pretty prose I would read edgar allen poe who can describe the hell out of life. I came to the book for the relationships and the culture. I was disappointed by the culture due to the main character not having any, and the book mostly mentioned culture through geishas. If we went to china and looked at their culture of the brothels before anything else, I would be insulted. She did exactly that with the geishas, glorifying sexualitily with no meaning. Frankly, it put me off.So, I was not impressed with that part of the story. The worst part was the relationships. The love story of Phillip was contrived to be a sad background for the main character and Eric was manipulative and unfeeling. He disguised it well because of how much he liked banging her, and maybe in the end he somewhat loved her, but his words about how he regarded her betrayed the physical actions. The best part of this book was her Mom. She was a rich character with the troubles and culture I was expecting to see in this novel. It was too bad that she was not fleshed out by the author.
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