Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Eight young women who are brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" in the early twentieth century and struggle to adapt to their new husbands, language, and culture and raise children who reject their heritage and history.
