Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Reading notes, week 10, Mori

Reading notes on Toshio Mori (583-592)


-first American writer of Japanese ancestry
-born in Oakland
-left for Utah in WW2
-stayed there for 3 years
-woman he visits is old
-never forget the experience of her house
-used to make doughnuts for him
-he couldn't describe her doughnuts they were so good
-everyone calls her mama
-Sessue Matoi
-people feared him
-he told the old lady she was in an egg
-sad and alone but laughing all the time
-the Japanese would sit in the park everyday
-he finally talked to the man
-laundry truck driver

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