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I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

Susan Kiyo Ito

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#2060 of 3,809 books · #716 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2023).

Growing up with adoptive nisei parents, Susan Kiyo Ito knew only that her birth mother was Japanese American and her father white. But finding and meeting her birth mother in her early twenties was only the beginning of her search for answers, history, and identity. Though the two share a physical likeness, an affinity for ice cream, and a relationship that sometimes even feels familial, there is an ever-present tension between them, as a decades-long tug-of-war pits her birth mother's desire for anonymity against Ito's need to know her origins, to see and be seen. Along the way, Ito grapples with her own reproductive choices, the legacy of the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II, and the true meaning of family. An account of love, what it's like to feel neither here nor there, and one writer's quest for the missing pieces that might make her feel whole, I Would Meet You Anywhere is the stirring culmination of Ito's decision to embrace her right to know and tell her own story.

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Publisher
Mad Creek Books
ISBN-13
9780814258835
Topics
Adoption and birth family searchJapanese American identityFamily and belonging

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