Minae Mizumura, Trans. by Juliet Winters Carpenter
RaveThe Rumpus\"For anyone with a family, Inheritance from Mother will almost certainly pierce those abstruse narratives we create of our own families, and in the best cases, recontextualize those relationships with more intricacy and compassion ... Mizumura’s depiction of the relationship between eastern and western ideals is one of the most gripping aspects of the novel ... Mizumura inevitably evokes comparisons to Isabelle Allende and Amy Tan for her focus on strong and resilient female characters, multi-generational families in a culture where family comes first, and dynamics of Western invasion into Eastern traditions. But her work is steeped in self-awareness, brazenly critiquing the traditional structures so integral to her history.\
