One Hundred And One Ways

I Have Spent Most Of My Life In New Jersey, But The Blood Of A Geisha Courses Through Me Yet. If Kiki Takehashi's Life Is Dramatically Different From That Of Her Reserved Japanese-american Mother, It Is Light-years Away From That Of Her Grandmother, Whom She Knows Only Through Old Family Stories. Kiki Has Recently Become Engaged To Eric, A Handsome, Successful New York City Lawyer. But At The Same Time She Is Haunted--quite Literally--by The Memory Of Her Friend Phillip, Killed The Previous Year In A Mountaineering Accident. Kiki Has Never Met Her Grandmother Yukiko, For Whom She Is Named. Still, Thoroughly American Though She Is, She Feels A Secret Kinship With Her. Kiki Is Swept Up By The Story Of This Strong, Proud, Passionate Woman Who, Against All Odds, In A Time And Place Far Different From Her Own, Was Sold By Her Impoverished Family, Became A Famous Geisha, And Found The Love That Has So Far Eluded The Rest Of The Takehashi Women. Lyrical, Haunting, And Stunningly Evocative, One Hundred And One Ways Introduces A Powerful And Exciting New Voice In Contemporary Fiction. From The Trade Paperback Edition.