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Book Bug: How To Be An American Housewife

November 30, 2013

Finishing this book was like ending Rowling’s book a couple months ago. There was a bitter sweet feeling and the realness of the characters stayed with me. To start with, I wasn’t bornt and raised in Canada. I made the move up here 10 years ago while my parents have stayed in SE Asia and somehow I could relate a bit with Shoko’s experience in moving into another country. Although I have to admit our experiences are far different: moving as a college student vs. as a military wife after WW II.

But finding a friend, a true friend, was a challenge. Even when we moved city recently (Vancouver to Toronto). I assume the older you get, the harder it is to find a new friendship. Adults tend to stay within their circles and rarely they opened the huddle for you to join them.
In my point of view, Dilloway wrote this novel beautifully and included Japanese culture details that I never knew. She also masterfully curated the characters’ assimilation into the respected cultures. And beautifully ended the piece with a reverse assimilation with a family help around. It was beautiful. And I won’t be a spoiler here as to what happened in this novel! But if you don’t have the time and interested in reading more, this site is pretty thorough!

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The beginning of the chapters are always started with a quote from a book called How To Be An American Housewife (1955). I looked forward to these quotes while reading this book as they gave you an insight of what the next chapter was going to be. There are a couple worth mentioning here:
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