Title: A haunting, quietly heartwrenching story
Product review: "Picture Bride" is an unforgettable novel. In her deceptively simple style, Yoshiko Uchida draws the reader into the Japanese-American world and brings it to life. Unlike the cold, factual feel of a textbook, Uchida uses a character (Hana Omiya) who is easily identified with to portray early 20th century America as seen and felt from the Japanese perspective. Hana is a woman with a strong spirit who seems to have been born in the wrong world, and you find yourself both pitying her circumstances and admiring her strength, which lasts to the end. This was a novel I thoroughly loved.
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