Talking to High Monks in the Snow: An Asian American Odyssey

by Lydia Minatoya

Book Overview

Winner of the 1991 PEN/Jerard Fund Award, Talking to High Monks in the Snow captures the passion and intensity of an Asian-American woman's search for cultural identity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060168099
• ISBN13: 9780060168094
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Life is just like a journey...

Traveling always brings a new dimension to yourself. This is an odyssey of a Sansei(the third generation of Japanese-American) woman, who has been wondering about who she is and where she belongs. Like Amy Tan's "The Opposite of Fate", she wrotes about her background (her immigrant grandparents, Nisei-Kibei parents, sister and herself) and her identity crisis. After growing up, she went on a trip to Asia (Japan, China, and Nepal) and met nice local people, and found some family secrets and her new Asian identity. Eventually, she comes to feel more comfortable to be Asian-American. I recently happened to take this book while traveling in Seattle. I'm so glad to find such an amazing book.