Kyoko Mori
We can be our truest selves with animals, and in this tender and lyric memoir, Kyoko Mori contemplates the unique blend of solitude and companionship a life lived among them can offer.
Faculty and Staff: Kyoko Mori - English
Kyoko Mori is the author of four nonfiction books (Cat and Bird; Yarn; Polite Lies; The Dream of Water). The title essay from her book, “Yarn,” was selected for The Best American Essays 2004, and Polite Lies was short-listed for PEN’s Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.
About - Kyoko Mori
Sep 19, 2016 · Kyoko Mori is the author of nonfiction books, Yarn; Polite Lies; and The Dream of Water, and novels, Stone Field, True Arrow; One Bird; and Shizuko's Daughter.
Cat and Bird: A Memoir: Mori, Kyoko: 9781953368690: …
Mar 5, 2024 · Cat and Bird, a “memoir in animals,” is anchored around Kyoko Mori’s relationship with the six house cats who defined the major eras of her life as a writer: Dorian, Oscar, Ernest, Algernon, Miles, and Jackson.
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Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures: Mori, Kyoko …
Apr 6, 1999 · In this powerful, exquisitely crafted book, Kyoko Mori delves into her dual heritage with a rare honesty that is both graceful and stirring.
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Kyoko Mori (Author of Shizuko's Daughter) - Goodreads
Kyoko Mori was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1957. As a young girl, she learned numerous ways to be creative, including drawing, sewing, and writing, from her ...
Kyoko Mori Biography - eNotes.com
Examine the life, times, and work of Kyoko Mori through detailed author biographies on eNotes. Mori contributes to a growing body of literature that attempts to reconcile memories and...
Kyoko Mori on Writing Through Deep Trauma - Literary Hub
Mar 2, 2017 · The story that propelled Mori 6,000 miles from her Japanese homeland is rooted in trauma. When she was 12 years old, Mori’s beloved mother put a plastic bag over her head, unhooked the gas line, held it to her mouth, and killed herself.
Books - Kyoko Mori
Kyoko Mori portrays a mother and a daughter trapped by traditional values and gender roles in Japan in the 1970s. Megumi’s mother leaves her unhappy marriage and returns to her father’s home in an isolated weaving village, forsaking her daughter and refusing to see or speak with her until she reaches adulthood.
Kyoko Mori Archives - Harvard Review
Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books ( The Dream of Water; Polite Lies; Yarn) and four novels ( Shizuko’s Daughter; One Bird; Stone Field, True Arrow; Barn Cat ). Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, American Scholar, Conjunctions, Best American Essays, and other journals and anthologies.
Kyoko Mori - Penguin Random House
Kyoko Mori is the author of three nonfiction books: Yarn: Remembering the Way Home; Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures; and The Dream of Water. Mori’s essay “Yarn” was selected for The Best American Essays 2004 and Polite Lies was shortlisted for PEN’s Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.
Faculty and Staff: Kyoko Mori - Creative Writing
Kyoko Mori is the author of four nonfiction books (Cat and Bird; Yarn; Polite Lies; The Dream of Water). The title essay from her book, “Yarn,” was selected for The Best American Essays 2004, and Polite Lies was short-listed for PEN’s Martha Albrand Nonfiction Award.
Kyoko Mori Biography - Infoplease
Kyoko Mori. poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer. Born: 1957. Birthplace: Kobe, Japan. A Japanese-American poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer, Mori was raised in Kobe, Japan, and, inspired by her mother and grandfather, began to write in both Japanese and English at …
Writing about Grief is Making Sense of It: A Conversation with Kyoko Mori
Mar 6, 2024 · When I heard that Kyoko Mori was writing a memoir about cats and birds, I thought that nothing made more perfect sense. She teaches in the MFA Program in creative writing at George Mason University, where I was once her student.
Polite Lies: on Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures - Kyoko Mori
Kyoko Mori’s life falls into two halves: childhood in Japan, adulthood in the Midwest. In both places she has been an outsider, unable to quite mimic everyone’s polite lies.
Amazon.com: The Dream of Water: A Memoir: 9780449910436: Mori, Kyoko…
Jan 16, 1996 · In an extraordinary memoir that is both a search for belonging and a search for understanding, Japanese-American author Kyoko Mori travels back to Kobe, Japan, the city of her birth, in an unspoken desire to come to terms with the memory of her mother's suicide and the family she left behind thirteen years before.
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The Dream of Water: a memoir - Kyoko Mori
There—looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water, and retracing childhood train trips to her grandparents’ farm—she relived the memories and uncovered the secrets that unlocked her past.
Amazon.com: One Bird: A Novel: 9780449704530: Mori, Kyoko: …
Sep 30, 1996 · One Bird by Kyoko Mori is a beautifully written, heartbreaking novel. Mrs. Mori puts so much heart and so many crafts into a 256 page novel. Megumi is a 10th grader in Japan in 1975. Megumi's mother leaves her to go to a more rural part of …
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Kyoko Mori – Kratz Center for Creative Writing - Goucher College
Apr 2, 2013 · Kyoko Mori, novelist, short story writer, essayist, and educator is a Professor of Creative nonfiction and Fiction at George Mason University. Kyoko Mori’s award-winning first novel, Shizuko’s Daughter, was hailed by
Yarn: Remembering the Way Home: Mori, Kyoko: …
Nov 1, 2009 · A memoir of crossing cultures, losing love, and finding home by a New York Times notable author. As steadily and quietly as her marriage falls apart, so Kyoko Mori's understanding of knitting deepens.
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