THE DREAM OF WATER
By Kyoko Mori

Kirkus Reviews:

In a poetic and emotionally charged account of a journey back to her native Japan, Mori creates beautiful scenes even as she uncovers painful truths about her family and her past. This beautifully written voyage through a "legacy of loss" is a trip well worth taking.

The Wall Street Journal:

Poetic … Remarkably honest … Mori describes her experiences with an admirable mixture of forthrightness and restraint.

Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer:

[A] compelling memoir … lyrical ...

Los Angeles Times Book Review:

Astonishingly beautiful … Through the clarity filters the beauty of a large heritage that Mori is by now too American to share, but still Japanese enough to appreciate its redeeming value and to be in some measure restored by it.

San Francisco Chronicle:

Magical … enlightening …