They travelled by boat for days and months on end, only to find the pictures and letters sent to them lies. No way they would be married off to a field worker or fisherman! Oh, the promises of a life in a big home, going out for fancy dinners, plays, operas. They were duped when they believed the letters these men wrote promising prosperity and fortune as they were being married to handsome Japanese bankers and doctors. It is written in the collective, in that it’s not one narrator but the combined stories of all women that were duped in to believing they were leaving behind a dismal life in Japan to the wonder, glory and freedom of America. These are some of the words that often came to mind while reading this seemingly short (about only 140 pages) little gem about the collective experiences of Japanese women that were brought over to America to marry Japanese men enslaved in work camps just prior to WWII.
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