![]() ![]() A profound and suspenseful debut." - Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street It also took me on two intricate journeys, from postwar Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife, and full of deeply conflicted feelings. "In How to Be an American Housewife, Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Jamie Ford, author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet "A tender and captivating novel of family secrets and redemption, and a compelling look at the complex love languages spoken within three generations of a family." She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other." - Luanne Rice ![]() " How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and loveĀthe kinds that come true and those that don't. The only minor drawback is the rather rushed ending." - Library Journal ![]() "Dilloway's writing is fluid, and she clearly knows how to draw the reader into her story. "nchanting first novel.Dilloway splits her narrative gracefully between mother and daughter, making a beautifully realized whole." - Publishers Weekly ![]()
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