The Woman in the White Kimono

by Ana Johns

Book Overview

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor, a gaijin--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778309266
• ISBN13: 9780778309260
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Park Row
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

"Kimono" doesn't hit the Mark!

I found the book totally predictable and the writing style plodding. I would recommend it more to the "Young Reader", as opposed to those of us who have been avid readers for many years. In fairness, I am a fan of Kristin Hannah and have just read "The Nightingale" for the second time... so perhaps, "Woman in the White Kimono" could not have hit the mark!