![]() ![]() As she searches through familiar neighborhoods and on distant islands, she is constantly aware of the culture she abandoned and the one she has adopted. ![]() It is the country she spend her adult life putting behind her, but it is also her homeland. Japan is the land Mori fled as a teenager, seeking to escape from her cold, abusive father and her manipulative stepmother. In The Dream of Water, a series of chapters that are themselves "small perfections," she leads us to the "larger happiness" of an autobiography that is also a work of art. In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There-looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips to her grandparents' farm-she relived the memories and uncovered the secrets that unlocked her past. ![]() Download The Dream of Water Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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