“…stunning, brave, extraordinary book.”
—Library Journal (Starred Review)

“compassionate, and necessary”
— Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

“deeply moving”
—Angela Tucker

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award

shortlisted for the william saroyan international prize for writing

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Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity.