This is not your usual autobiography chronicling dates, events, people and places in a person's life. In Daughter of a Gun the reader walks beside Kaori beginning when she is born in Beijing to Japanese parents who were expecting a boy. The family lived in great comfort in one of the former German colonies in China. This ends abruptly when they are expelled and repatriated to Sasebo, Japan, a suburb of Nagasaki, one of the two towns destroyed...