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Title: Tea with Milk by Allen Say ISBN: 0-395-90495-1 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 March, 1999 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: She is me
Comment: I had the occasion to see the original of the cover painting. A needle shot through my heart. I am a Japanese citizen, my mother tongue definitely Japanese, but I was brought up in the States until I was 9. When I came back, I was just so occupied to adapt and didn't realize that I was considerably lonely and uncomfortable. Worse, my parents' did not realize the fact that Japan was a new place for me, since for them, it had been their home land. Living in different places on the globe accordingly to my father's work did not end with this; we went as far as South Africa. I am now permanently in Japan, having living here for almost 15 years, but still cannot say it is my home. And there still isn't any specific place that I can call "home". I like to believe in the notion of home and belonging presented in this book, and to be able to find the strength that the girl had in breaking her way out to live as "herself" and "make a home" for herself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Megan and Aarti's Beautiful Review
Comment: TEA WITH MILK is about a young girl who lives in San Fransisco.When she was a young lady she went to Japan with her parents.She did not like sitting on her legs.Soon her parents wanted her to date a bank loner and she did not want to.Then she went to the city in Japan.She got a job there and got married. We loved TEA WITH MILK. I hope we get that good like Allen Says books.They are very evocative.
Rating: 1
Summary: Biased, discriminating, and unflattering view of Japan
Comment: Some people probably enjoy the story of a young girl standing up to what is presented to readers as a bizarre and repressive culture. However the book offers a biased, discriminating, and unflattering picture of life in Japan from the point of view of a young woman who was raised in America and apparently resents having been forced to move. She makes no effort to understand the cultural differences between the countries and completely fails to acknowledge the things that make Japan fascinating. Another reader concluded that May and Joseph finally "decide to make a home for themselves and adopt Japan by choice". The truth is they never adopted Japan but decided to stay there anyway.
Having lived in Japan for most of my adult life, I was quite shocked when my daughter brought this book home from school. She was born in Tokyo and we were living there until recently. Pretty pictures do not compensate for a story that misrepresents Japanese culture and glorifies a narrow-minded girl.
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Title: Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say ISBN: 0395570352 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 25 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tree of Cranes by Allen Say ISBN: 039552024X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Stranger in the Mirror by Allen Say ISBN: 039593883X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 26 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland, Tatsuro Kiuchi ISBN: 0152014837 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Bicycle Man by Allen Say ISBN: 0395506522 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin/Walter Lorraine Books Pub. Date: 27 March, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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