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October 11, 2011

Memoir Author Finds Drama in Everyday Life

Author Interview, Lisa Fineberg Cook

Coming of age, culture, Hero’s Journey, home coming, Japan, Jewish American Princess, memoir, travel

None of it was easy and what’s true is that if I had decided to write the book immediately after returning to the States, it would NOT have been a humorous book, it would have been a much more serious, angst-filled memoir because Japan was incredibly challenging for me, very painful and an enormous growth…

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Jerry Waxler
September 20, 2011

Endings of Memoirs: She Returns Home

Hero’s Journey, Lisa Fineberg Cook

Coming of age, culture, Hero’s Journey, home coming, Japan, memoir, travel

I have become accustomed to discovering this structure at the heart of many stories that I like, so I was not surprised to see it peeking out through the pages of “Japan Took the JAP Out of Me.” The author travels from her familiar world of Los Angeles to the land of the adventure, Japan,…

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Jerry Waxler

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