New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's second novel, a finalist for the National Book Award - a slim volume which is "a tour de force of economy and precision, that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as picture brides nearly a century ago. [It] traces their lives, from their arduous journey by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives, to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women. . and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war" as they were rounded up and sent to detention camps. 129 pp. ISBN: 978-0307700001.