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Chapter Twelve—Get Back in There

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Aug 2017

Six months later In Japan, it was all about family and your family name. That’s why men were adopted into families that had no ...

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Chapter Nine—Clipped

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 May 2017

In Japanese folktales, old women are sometimes cast as the “bad guys.” You see it in “Tongue-Cut Sparrow,” in which an elderly lady clips the ...

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Chapter Eight—Turning Japanese

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Apr 2017

It takes Gen some time to calm Tom down. After all, I, his enemy, have taken over his grill. It doesn’t matter whether you ...

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Chapter Seven—Food Fight

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Mar 2017

After I was used by Morgan Taketa, I stay in my bed of Amazon packaging and bubble wrap for almost two weeks straight. Unfortunately for ...

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Chapter Six—“We Believe in America”

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Feb 2017

We are sitting in a restaurant in Battery Park, which is on the south side of the island of Manhattan. Morgan tells me that it ...

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Chapter Five—Death by Yelp

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Jan 2017

“This was just amazing.” Morgan Taketa says after wiping his lips with a cloth napkin that was hand-sewn by my best friend, Risa. He still ...

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Chapter Four—Deep Like the Rivers

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Dec 2016

Deep’s Butcher Shop in East Harlem is nothing like the ones I’ve seen in other parts of New York City. Yes, there’s ...

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Chapter Three—The Perfect Cut

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Nov 2016

My feet are swollen and sore, and it’s all because of pork belly. In Japan we had a special distributor which brought our okonomiyaki ...

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Chapter Two—Trade Secrets

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Oct 2016

A-ra, I think, struggling to turn off the hot water shower faucet. My uncle. The last person in the whole wide world that I want ...

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Chapter One—Throwaway Girls

  • By Naomi Hirahara
  • 4 Sep 2016

“I guess we are throwaway girls,” Risa says, helping me to unpack one of my boxes. I do not know why it is taking her ...
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