Kyoko Mori spent her childhood in Japan and her adulthood in the Midwest, but doesn’t feel as though she fits in either place. In these 12 painful and at times very funny essays she looks at the codes of silence, deference and expression that rule Japanese and American women’s lives. Polite Lies explores the bond of family, the lies that keep them apart, the art of mourning and the images of our bodies that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and pertinent to American women. | Polite Lies by Kyoko Mori, Paperback | Indigo Chapters