{"id":64276,"date":"2023-06-09T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64276"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:27:46","slug":"i-would-meet-you-anywhere-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64276","title":{"rendered":"I Would Meet You Anywhere, A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

I Would Meet You Anywhere, A Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Mad Creek Books<\/a> (an imprint of Ohio State University Press<\/a>)
\n2023-11-04
\n248 pages
\n5.5 x 8.5 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8142-5883-5<\/p>\n

Susan Kiyo Ito<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Growing up with adoptive nisei<\/a> parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white.<\/strong> But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity. Though the two share a physical likeness, an affinity for ice cream, and a relationship that sometimes even feels familial, there is an ever-present tension between them, as a decades-long tug-of-war pits her birth mother\u2019s desire for anonymity against Ito\u2019s need to know her origins, to see and be seen. Along the way, Ito grapples with her own reproductive choices, the legacy of the Japanese American incarceration<\/a> experience during World War II<\/a>, and the true meaning of family. An account of love, what it\u2019s like to feel neither here nor there, and one writer\u2019s quest for the missing pieces that might make her feel whole, I Would Meet You Anywhere<\/em> is the stirring culmination of Ito\u2019s decision to embrace her right to know and tell her own story.<\/p>\n

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