How To Be An American Housewife is a 2010 novel by Margaret Dilloway. It is based on the experiences of Dilloway's mother, who was a Japanese war bride.
Synopsis The book tells the story of Shoko Morgan, a mother of two and wife to American GI Charlie. Shoko decided to contact her brother Taro, whom she last saw when she married Charlie at the end of World War II. However, she is too ill to return her country. Shoko asked her daughter Sue and granddaughter to go to Japan to find her uncle to discover her mother's life secret.
Awards The book was a John Gardner Fiction Award Finalist in 2011.
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External links Goodreads http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_h/how_to_be_an_american_housewife1.asp