Kumamoto Sojourn

By Leslee Inaba Wong

The "Inaba Ladies"-ten American women spanning three family generations on a whirlwind tour of Japan.

With good-natured chiding and humor, these shop-till-you-drop women amaze, frustrate, and charm their Japanese guides, family and friends as they trek from Mt. Fuji to Kumamoto.

Middle-aged sansei Leslee Inaba Wong balances the demands of travel with her newly diagnosed diabetes, while maintaining her New York brashness, tenacity, and perspective throughout.

Her journey begins as a tourist, and becomes an odyssey as she uncovers her links to the land of her ancestry, in this honest story of self-discovery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Nov 11, 2005
• ISBN: 9780595818891

Leslee Inaba Wong

Leslee Inaba Wong has published essays in East Wind Magazine, and poetry in Third World Women, an anthology of poetry. She lives in New York City with her husband, GT Wong.

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