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How to Be an American Housewife

2010-08-05 Fiction
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Release : 2010-08-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis How to Be an American Housewife by : Margaret Dilloway

Download or read book How to Be an American Housewife written by Margaret Dilloway. This book was released on 2010-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.

American Housewife

2016-01-12 Fiction
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Release : 2016-01-12
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis American Housewife by : Helen Ellis

Download or read book American Housewife written by Helen Ellis. This book was released on 2016-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven. Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delightfully demented stories are a refreshing and wicked answer to the question: “What do housewives do all day?”

Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan

2011-05-31 Travel
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Release : 2011-05-31
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan by : Pauline Hager

Download or read book Memoirs of an American Housewife in Japan written by Pauline Hager. This book was released on 2011-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American housewife's husband is offered a position in Japan to work on a multinational project. After much sole-searching they accept and their lives are never the same. Living in the countryside in housing specifically designed for Westerners, surrounded with friendly Japanese neighbors, and with families from The European Union, Canada, Russia and The United States, the Hagers endure. Life in Japan was a challenge: learning to drive on the left side of the road, decipher the labels on cans in the grocery stores, to name a few, but with the help of eager Japanese and their Western neighbors they thrive.

American Wife

2008-09-02 Fiction
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Release : 2008-09-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis American Wife by : Curtis Sittenfeld

Download or read book American Wife written by Curtis Sittenfeld. This book was released on 2008-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible “Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time • People • Entertainment Weekly A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the trajectory of her life. More than a decade later, when the charismatic son of a powerful Republican family sweeps her off her feet, she is surprised to find herself admitted into a world of privilege. And when her husband unexpectedly becomes governor and then president, she discovers that she is married to a man she both loves and fundamentally disagrees with—and that her private beliefs increasingly run against her public persona. As her husband’s presidency enters its second term, Alice must confront contradictions years in the making and face questions nearly impossible to answer. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Rocky Mountain News • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Washington Post Book World

The American Frugal Housewife

1847 Cooking
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Release : 1847
Genre : Cooking
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Book Synopsis The American Frugal Housewife by : Lydia Maria Child

Download or read book The American Frugal Housewife written by Lydia Maria Child. This book was released on 1847. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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