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The book tells the story of Shoko Morgan, a mother of two and wife to AmericanGI Charlie. Shoko decided to contact her brother Taro, whom she last saw when she married Charlie at the end of World War II. However, she is too ill to return her country. Shoko asked her daughter Sue and granddaughter to go to Japan to find her uncle to discover her mother's life secret.
Characters
Shoko Morgan - A Japanese Woman who married American GI, with whom she had 2 children
Suiko (Sue) Morgan - Shoko's and Charlie's daughter and sister to Mike and niece to Taro
Charlie Morgan - Shoko's husband and Mike's and Sue's father is an Irish-American GI who is kindhearted yet shy
Mike Morgan - Shoko's and Charlie's son and older brother of Sue
Taro - Shoko's younger brother and uncle to Sue and Mike, who hates Americans, retired from being a school principal
Mille Morgan - Charlie's mother, who become Shoko's mother in law and grandmother to Mike and Sue
Nanny - a babysitter whom Shoko disliked as a child
Craig - Sue's ex-husband and Helena's father, who married her at age of 20
Suki - Taro's and Shoko's sister.
Ronin - an Eta whom Shoko fell in love with, born to an English father and Japanese mother. He and Shoko were lovers. He was killed by Tetsuo
Tetsuo - Taro's childhood friend, who was engaged to Shoko until he cheated on her with her friend Yuki.
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