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A review by ulaclare
Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.25
I really like this book. I found it to be engaging and heartwarming that she got away from some toxic people in her life. I didn’t know she was the base of Memoirs of a Geisha and I didn’t know anything about the Geisha lifestyle until I read this.
Because of that some of it was hard to follow. My cultural ignorance on Japanese culture was working against me.
There were relationships that Mineko was just taken advantaged of. I especially disliked her mom.
On the whole though I was engaged the whole time. I felt sad reading it and was glad she escaped such a toxic environment and it’s sad at the time they didn’t provide these girls with education to leave the Geisha lifestyle.
The grooming and sexual abuse was hard to read and sad to experience. But it wasn’t overly graphic where I couldn’t continue.
Because of that some of it was hard to follow. My cultural ignorance on Japanese culture was working against me.
There were relationships that Mineko was just taken advantaged of. I especially disliked her mom.
On the whole though I was engaged the whole time. I felt sad reading it and was glad she escaped such a toxic environment and it’s sad at the time they didn’t provide these girls with education to leave the Geisha lifestyle.
The grooming and sexual abuse was hard to read and sad to experience. But it wasn’t overly graphic where I couldn’t continue.