The sweetest fruits
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Published
New York : Viking, [2019].
Status
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Viking, [2019].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai's daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English teacher, and becomes the mother of his four children and his unsung literary collaborator. The lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible. In The Sweetest Fruits, these three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. In their own unorthodox ways, these women are also intrepid travelers and explorers. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time. Each is a gifted storyteller with her own precise reason for sharing her story, and together their voices offer a revealing, often contradictory portrait of Hearn. -- from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Truong, M. T. D. (2019). The sweetest fruits . Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Truong, Monique T. D.. 2019. The Sweetest Fruits. Viking.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Truong, Monique T. D.. The Sweetest Fruits Viking, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Truong, Monique T. D.. The Sweetest Fruits Viking, 2019.
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