Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan by Leslie Helm
17 Dec, by in Adult Readers, European, Hapa/Mixed-race, Japanese, Japanese American, Memoir, Nonfiction
'Sprawling' barely begins to describe journalist/editor Leslie Helm's ambitious family history that spans nearly a century-and-a-half, three continents, and the titular five generations of a German Japanese American family with current branches spread throughout the rest of the world. Prompted by the death of his difficult...