Barn Cat -- Kyoko Mori

<p> </p> <p>"Kyoko Mori is one of the world's most inimitable writers."</p> <p>&#8213;Howard Norman, <em>The Bird Artist</em> and <em>What is Left the Daughter</em></p> <p>A young girl leaves Tokyo with her mother in 1979, carrying her pink suitcase to a new home, a new father and sister, on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Thirty-three years later, her mother's belongings are found packed into boxes, her furniture draped in white sheets. Without so much as a note, a mother leaves these grown sisters to figure out where she has gone. </p> <p>What happens when people lose their way home? Like a little barn cat, they grab onto a second family... and start again.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Kyoko Mori<br><b>Publisher:</b> Gemma Open Door<br><b>Published:</b> 05/03/2013<br><b>Pages:</b> 100<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.20lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.04h x 4.43w x 0.27d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781936846405<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Kyoko Mori's award-winning first novel, <i>Shizuko's Daughter</i>, was hailed by <i>The New York Times </i>as "a jewel of a book, one of those rarities that shine out only a few times in a generation." Her many critically acclaimed books include <i>Polite Lies, The Dream of Water, Yarn</i> and the novels, <i> Stone Field, True Arrow</i> and<i> One Bird. </i>Kyoko Mori teaches at George Mason University and lives in Washington, D.C.</p>