Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear

Download or read book Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear written by Kathleen Tamagawa and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa’s pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish American mother and a Japanese father and raised in Chicago and Japan, Tamagawa reflects on the difficulty she experienced fitting into either parent’s native culture.