Tadaima! I Am Home: A Transnational Family History

by Tom Coffman

Book Overview

Tadaima I Am Home unearths the five-generation history of a family that migrated from Hiroshima to Honolulu but never settled. In the telling, the common Japanese greeting "tadaima " takes on a perplexing meaning. What is home? Where most immigrants either establish roots in a new place or return to their place of origin, the Miwa family became transnational. With one foot in Japan, the other in America, they attempted to build lives in both countries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824877276
• ISBN13: 9780824877279
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"