shizuko's+daughter

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In the novel Shizuko's Daughter, Shizuko has a daughter by the name of Yuki. Yuki is a strong independent girl who does not shoe her emotions. Shizuko commits suicide by turning the gas stove on and dies of carbom monozie. Yuki then becomes very close to her aunt Aya, her mother's sister. Aya tells yuki of her mother when she was a child. A year after her mother's death her father was getting married to a woman by the name of Hanea who is very mean to Yuki. Hanea got rid of all the memories around the house of Yuki's mother because she was the mother now. Yuki ran track for her school and meets a new friend who she eventually loses. She is also a very artistic girl and ends up moving far away from her father and stepmother to go to college. She often visited her grandparents. Her aunt Aya marries an old family friend who helps Yuki see if falling in love was worth it. Yuki then meets a guy who she had been going to college with and can not decide weather or not she wants to date him. ======

What made this book work as a good read was seeing the effects of Yuki's life after losing the people she was close to weather or to someone else. She lost her mother from suicide. Her father paid no attention to her when she got remarried. Also she was losing friends because of the way her father and stepmother treated her.
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I would definitly recommend Shizuko's Daughter for any girl to read. I do not think it is a book many boy's would find enjoyable. It was a sad book book but it made you think that this stuff does happen and it was an easy book to connect to I found it very enjoyable. I always wanted to know what was going to happen to Yuki next.
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__**Author Biography:**__ Kyoko Mori was born and raised in Kobe, Japan. She was born in 1957. She was a Japanese-American novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. Mori was able to write in both English and Japanese. Just like in her book "Shizuko's Daughter" her mother commited suicide when she was 12 years old. She then was faced with an emotional life. She left her family in Japan and moved to the United State to go to college. The first college she went to was Rockford College and got her bachelor's degree. Then she went to the University of Wisconsin and got her master's and Ph.D. Mori is still alive.

**__T​heme__**: The theme of this novel is death. Death occurs in the booktwice and carries out to how she then lives her life. At the beginning she loses her mother and in the end she lost her grandfather of a heart attack. It show how she lives her life without the people who mean the most to her.