title: Picture Bride Stories
author: Barbara F. Kawakami
description: This engrossing book continues Kawakami's exploration of this part of the American story to include a group not much previously noticed. She carries out her research and presentation with a courageous, individualized, and sensitive attention to amazing variations within this particular ethnic group. Highly recommended. Author: R. B. Lyman Jr. Source: CHOICE<br /><br />By letting her subjects, all issei (first-generation immigrant) women, tell their stories in their own words, taken from 250 hours of interviews she recorded with them, Kawakami gives voice to the silence-riddled history of picture brides in Hawaii and the reader feels an instant connection to them. . . . &lt;i&gt;Picture Bride Stories&lt;/i&gt; is a scrapbook of memory and a treasure of local Japanese history. Along with their voices, the legacies of these women endure in these pages. Author: Misty-Lynn Sanico Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser<br /><br />This book is a great addition to Japanese American history because it focuses on a specific segment of picture brides, those that settled in Hawaii rather than the U.S. mainland. . . . [It] provides a needed historical account of the actual voices of picture brides from Hawaii that highlighted their agency and contributions to the Japanese American community in Hawaii. Author: Jeffrey Yamashita Source: Nichi Bei Weekly
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