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Title Secrets of the sun : a memoir / Mako Yoshikawa.
Author Yoshikawa, Mako, author.
Publication Info. Columbus : Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press, [2024]
©2024
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B YOSHIKAWA    Check Shelves
 South Trail  B YOSHIKAWA    Check Shelves
Description 154 pages ; 22 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series 21st century essays
21st century essays.
Contents Dearly beloved -- Favorite story -- My father's women -- Unbeatable -- Work equals force times displacement -- Snapshot -- American fairytale -- When Tojo came to visit -- Clothes make the man -- The promise -- Pressure equals force divided by area -- Force equals mass times acceleration -- Chess superhero -- Mandala -- Tokyo Monsoon.
Summary "A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Yoshikawa, Mako -- Family.
Yoshikawa, Shōichi, 1935-2010 -- Relations with women.
Mentally ill fathers -- Biography.
Physicists -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
ISBN 9780814258934 (paperback) : $19.95
081425893X (paperback)