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Inheritance from Mother

Inheritance from Mother

Mizumura, Minae
Carpenter, Juliet Winters

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 159051985X
ISBN13: 9781590519851
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: Apr 9 2019
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Now in paperback, this Osaragi Jiro Award-winning novel demystifies the notion of the selfless Japanese mother and the adult daughter honor-bound to care for her.

Mitsuki Katsura, a Japanese woman in her mid-fifties, is a French-language instructor at a private university in Tokyo. Her husband, whom she met in Paris, is a professor at another private university. He is having an affair with a much younger woman.

In addition to her husband's infidelity, Mitsuki must deal with her ailing eighty-something mother, a demanding, self-absorbed woman who is far from the image of the patient, self-sacrificing Japanese matriarch. Mitsuki finds herself guiltily dreaming of the day when her mother will finally pass on. While doing everything she can to ensure her mother's happiness, she grows weary of the responsibilities of being a doting daughter and worries she is sacrificing her chance to find fulfillment in her middle age.

Inheritance from Mother not only offers insight into a complex and paradoxical culture, but is also a profound work about mothers and daughters, marriage, old age, and the resilience of women.

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