The Good Shufu

Author : Tracy Slater
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101634847
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Shufu written by Tracy Slater and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brave, wry, irresistible journey of a fiercely independent American woman who finds everything she ever wanted in the most unexpected place. Shufu: in Japanese it means “housewife,” and it’s the last thing Tracy Slater ever thought she’d call herself. A writer and academic, Tracy carefully constructed a life she loved in her hometown of Boston. But everything is upended when she falls head over heels for the most unlikely mate: a Japanese salary-man based in Osaka, who barely speaks her language. Deciding to give fate a chance, Tracy builds a life and marriage in Japan, a country both fascinating and profoundly alienating, where she can read neither the language nor the simplest social cues. There, she finds herself dependent on her husband to order her food, answer the phone, and give her money. When she begins to learn Japanese, she discovers the language is inextricably connected with nuanced cultural dynamics that would take a lifetime to absorb. Finally, when Tracy longs for a child, she ends up trying to grow her family with a Petri dish and an army of doctors with whom she can barely communicate. And yet, despite the challenges, Tracy is sustained by her husband’s quiet love, and being with him feels more like “home” than anything ever has. Steadily and surely, she fills her life in Japan with meaningful connections, a loving marriage, and wonder at her adopted country, a place that will never feel natural or easy, but which provides endless opportunities for growth, insight, and sometimes humor. A memoir of travel and romance, The Good Shufu is a celebration of the life least expected: messy, overwhelming, and deeply enriching in its complications.

Author : Tracey Slater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780425282304
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Shufu written by Tracey Slater and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japanese, shufu means 'housewife': the last thing Bostonian writer and academic Tracy Slater ever thought she'd call herself. But then she fell head over heels in love with a Japanese salary-man based in Osaka, who barely spoke her language. Deciding to give romance a chance, Tracy relocated to Japan to build a new life, one filled with contradictions and dissonance, enlightenment and joy, and a happiness she never knew she was missing.

Author : Shufu To Seikatsu Sha
Publisher : Interweave
ISBN 13 : 9781596683525
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simple Modern Sewing written by Shufu To Seikatsu Sha and published by Interweave. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25 fabulous, wearable garments from only 8 simple patterns! Make a closetful of comfortable and easy go-to garments without needing tons of patterns. You need just the eight included basic templates which show you how to fold and cut for each of the 25 unique designs. The patterns are easy and adaptable with no-fuss sizing, so it's simple to sew clothes that are perfect for you. If you're a beginner sewer you'll love the basic shapes and stylish results. Once you've mastered the patterns you can get creative and make each piece your own by using a variety of fabrics, or by adding fashionable embellishments like a print lining or contrast-stitching. Fill your wardrobe in no time with these easy to make and wear garments.

Author : Rachel DeWoskin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340074
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China written by Rachel DeWoskin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-07-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For a real insider’s look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin.”—Sophie Beach, The Economist Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, “to get rich is glorious.” In only a few years, China’s capital is transformed. With “considerable cultural and linguistic resources” (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her “intelligent, funny memoir” (People), and “readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver’s seat”(Elle).

Author : Suzanne Hall Vogel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442221720
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Family in Transition written by Suzanne Hall Vogel and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These gripping biographies poignantly illustrate the strengths and the vulnerabilities of professional housewives and of families facing social change and economic uncertainty in contemporary Japan.

Author : John S. Littell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101209461
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Impressions: written by John S. Littell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, as many families were establishing lives in suburbia, Mary and Frank Littell decided to uproot their young family from the comfort of their home in the United States and move to France for a year. Now, decades later, their son John S. Littell, who was four years old at the time of their French exploration, brings his mother’s journals to life and tells the story of living in the working-class town of Montpellier from her perspective. French Impressions: The Adventures of an American Family chronicles one family’s adventures abroad, as Mary struggles to maintain a home in a new culture and to cook the local cuisine, while Frank traverses to various bars and nightly reads Great Expectations to his toddlers. These often comedic and heartening familial struggles will at once seem familiar and lost to the times gone by.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147253817X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good Person Of Szechwan written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Brecht's dark, dazzling world-view...makes an absolutely devastating impact. The play is fuelled by the brilliant perception that everyone requires such a dual or split personality to survive.' Evening Standard Three gods come to earth hoping to discover one really good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tabacco shop but finds it is impossible to survive as a good person in a corrupt world without the support of her ruthless alter ego Shui Ta. Brecht's parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide. This Student Edition features an extensive introduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion of the context, themes, characters, style and language as well as questions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text. It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.

Author : Shufu-no-Tomo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1939130379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effortless Bento written by Shufu-no-Tomo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bento books have been some of the more accessible and popular genres coming out of Japan over the last few years, and Effortless Bento is essentially the bento encyclopedia. Filled with hundreds of full-color photos and numerous recipes this is the essential box lunch book.

Author : Shizuko Koyama
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004230610
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ry?sai Kenbo written by Shizuko Koyama and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous ryosai-kenbo or 'good wife and wise mother' role of women was not, after all, a traditional Confucian view but a modern construct. In fact, its first appearance in Japan was in the latter half of the 19th century, due principally to the influence of European ideas about women.

Author : O. Goldstein-Gidoni
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137079622
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housewives of Japan written by O. Goldstein-Gidoni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally constructed roles bestowed on Japanese women by a variety of state agents, including the market and the media, and the 'real' lives of these women.