How to be an American House Wife

A Japanese Luncheon Adventure with Margaret Dilloway

Event Details

Friday August 26, 2011
Starts at Noon (12pm)
Japanese Friendship Garden
Balboa Park, San Diego
(behind the organ pavilion)
Event includes admission to the Japanese Friendship Garden (enjoy a stroll before or after the event), an informal Japanese lunch with beverage, author discussion with Q&A and book signing (in the meeting room).

About the Book and Author

How to be an American Housewife had its origins in the story of Dilloway’s own mother, a Japanese war bride who died when the author was just twenty, leaving behind few details of the family, culture, and experiences that had shaped her. Dilloway was inspired by an actual book from the 1940′s called The American Way of Housekeeping, which her father gave to her mother early in their real-life marriage, and which the author found among her mother’s possessions after her death. The fictional result of that discovery tells the story of a Japanese woman who marries an American soldier at the end of World War II, her thorny relationship with her American daughter, and the trip to contemporary Japan that changes both of their lives in dramatic and unexpected ways.

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