A review by sassncriticism8
Picture Bride and Related Readings by Yoshiko Uchida

5.0

The main character, Hana is a headstrong independent girl from Japan who ventures to America as one of many picture brides. Though her husband is not as she had hoped he would be, the two of them endure years of life together filled with grief, pain, love and laughter. Friends surround and Hana comes to love life in Oakland, CA. She has three miscarriages but has a daughter, Mary, but she too causes grief to Mary. The couple are thrown into the troubles of WWII and Hana and her husband, Taro, endure. It's a very enriching tale of the dignity and the honor of the Japanese during the war. World War II did much too and even America had its mistakes. The Japanese had great endurance of their treatment and its a wonderful story full of the experiences of life and what you may endure.